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Johanna (Jean Marsh)

posted 16 years ago by hbailie
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Maybe this is explained in the book, or maybe it's a giant goof.
If Johanna is a German national, wouldn't she be have been detained as an enemy alien? At the beginning of the war it was mainly men who were detained, but at the point of the war as depicted in the movie both men & women were detained.

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[–] jgroub 16 years ago

She said she was a South African national, and a Boer to boot.

I asked the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.

[–] hbailie 16 years ago

I missed that somehow. So she's just a sympathiser.

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[–] Sid-Blitzen 11 years ago

In the book, Johanna was much older, old enough to have personally experienced ill-treatment in the Boer War. Hence her bitterness and readiness to help the Nazis.