During World War II, Douglas psychiatrist Heinz Lehmann, MD, who had emigrated from Germany, recalled, “Hysteria was running high and I was suspected of being a Nazi spy. One night, I was typing a letter in my room, when somebody threw a stone at my window and yelled: ‘You damned spy, stop your Morse Code.’ The person thought I was giving radio messages to the enemy!”

Heinz Lehmann, MD, also recalled that doctors and nurses were not allowed to “fraternize” at the Hospital during the war years. Despite the rule, doctors and nurses were known to go on dates during their days off