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Age: 20

Loves her family & country

Being the oldest, she helps around the house and farm

Her mother taught her everything she knows about medicine

German Lutheran

Kind and Selfless

Respects other people and their beliefs

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This picture shows Else with her sister, Wilma and her brother, Thomas. It was taken right before she left to go be a nurse in the war.

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Family: Hedwig (mother), Otto (father), Thomas (brother), Wilma (sister)

Otto is a farmer

Hedwig is a teacher in a nearby village

Thomas is 14 years old

Wilma is 8 years old

Has some relatives in Austria-Hungary and France

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20 year old German nurse in ww1 and her mother, father, 8 year old sister, and 14 year old brother outside of their small farmhouse

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This is a picture of the Wagner Family farm

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The Wagner family farm is located in the Northwestern part of Germany. They are about a 2 days wagon ride away from the city Hamburg. The Wagner's are a middle-class family who works for what they have.

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Would like to have peace but knows they have to go to war to get it

Willing to go serve as a nurse for her country

Respectful of other people's beliefs

Saddens her to see her peers leaving to serve in the army

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20 year old German girl with brown hair sadly watching troops march away ww1

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The red circle is the area where Else is from.

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Else went off to work as a nurse in the war. She takes her job very seriously as she wanted to make a change for the people in the war. While in duty, Else witnesses a lot of deaths and injuries. This left an impact on her by seeing the reality of war. Else was not expecting to see what she was experiencing. She thought that it was really different caring for soldiers rather than her family. The longer she was caring for soldiers, the more she started to miss her family.

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young German girl nurse caring for soldiers during WW1

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Being exposed to so many diseases as a nurse, one day, Else gets a cough. She also experiences chills and fevers. After two weeks of continuous coughing, she coughs up blood. Else has tuberculosis. She loves nurturing the wounded soldiers, so she acts like nothing is wrong. Else tries to pretend that she is fine so she can keep nursing, but her superiors see that she is sick. They force her to take a break. She is bedridden and on the verge of death, but she gradually starts to get better. Else is sent to a boarding house to finish recovery.

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20 year old German girl with brown hair ww1 sick with fever in bed in dark boarding house sleeping with tuberculosis

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Else had been recovering in the bording house for a couple of weeks. She was about to go to bed when she heard a knock at the door. Else was very confused as to who would come by at this time of night. She opened the door to a few soldiers wanting her help. She decides to help them as quick as she could to avoid consequences. The soldiers had a few minor cuts that just needed to be bandaged. These soldiers came to Else because they weren't given care for their minor injuries. After she helps them, she went to bed and thought about how grateful she was to be able to help people. Suddenly, this makes Else not as homesick because she feels at home when helping people.

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German soldiers outside house at night during WW1

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Else goes home to her family. While in the hospital, she developed a passion for nursing. When her brother gets sick, she is the one who nursed him back to health. Her reputation grows, and soon she is the unofficial village nurse. When someone in her area gets sick or hurt, they go to her house and she takes care of them. Her experience with the enemy soldiers deeply impacted the way she thought of people. Enemy or not, it's still a person, and if that person needs help, Else Wagner will selflessly help them.

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20 year old German girl with brown hair in 1918 taking care of a very sick man in her house

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