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'Close Your Eyes and Don't Scream' — German Women POWs Were Told Before American Doctors Arrived"

"Close your eyes. Don't scream. No matter what they do." These were the whispered instructions German women prisoners passed to each other in 1945, preparing for medical examinations by American doctors. Propaganda had taught them that enemy soldiers were savages who used medical exams as pretexts for violation and humiliation. They braced for the worst moment of their lives. But when those examination room doors opened at Camp Shanks, New York, what they found shattered everything they believed about their captors. Instead of cruelty, there were stethoscopes and gentle voices. Instead of soldiers, there were female nurses who held their trembling hands. Instead of humiliation, there was a doctor who simply said: "You are patients. I am a doctor. That's all that matters in this room." This powerful true story from World War II follows women like Greta and Ilse as they struggle to comprehend an enemy who treats infections with medicine, not malice—who provides chicken soup, clean beds, and real soap while their families starve in Germany's ruins. Discover how acts of ordinary medical care became the most devastating weapon against years of propaganda, and why one nurse whose husband died fighting Germans still chose to heal them with gentle hands. This forgotten chapter reveals that the greatest victory over hatred isn't won with bombs or bullets—it's won when someone has every reason to be cruel and chooses compassion instead.