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Named after Bremen, Germany due to many of the early settlers being German natives. [27] Bremen: Kentucky: Settled by German immigrants, who named it after Bremen, Germany: Bremen: Maine: Mostly settled by German immigrants, who named it after Bremen, Germany when the town was incorporated on February 19, 1828. [28] Bremen: North Dakota: Named ...
Questions of German American loyalty increased due to events like the German bombing of Black Tom island [98] and the U.S. entering World War I, many German Americans were arrested for refusing allegiance to the U.S. [99] War hysteria led to the removal of German names in public, names of things such as streets, [100] and businesses. [101]
German Americans (German: Deutschamerikaner) are citizens of the United States who are of German ancestry; they form the largest ethnic ancestry group in the United States, accounting for 17% of U.S. population. [1] The first significant numbers arrived in the 1680s in New York and Pennsylvania. Some eight million German immigrants have entered ...
German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War [citation needed].More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 1st-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army, notably from New York, Wisconsin, and Ohio.
The story of the generally studied North Dakota German originates in southern central Germany. The ancestors of these Germans, also known as Volga Germans, had relocated to Russia in 1763 under invitation by Catherine the Great and organized over one hundred colonies which lined the Volga River near present-day Saratov. By 1884, many of these ...
German Village is a historic neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio, just south of the city's downtown. It was settled in the early-to-mid-19th century by a large number of German immigrants , who at one time comprised as much as a third of the city's entire population.
The Occupation statute of 1949 set regulations for the post-war time within Allied-occupied Germany. Numerous American military installations were established during this time, and eventually hundreds were in place, mainly in Southern Germany. At the time of German Reunification in 1990, there were still about 200,000 US soldiers in Germany. By ...
Germany portal; Ohio portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 7 subcategories, out of 7 total. ... Pages in category "German-American culture in Ohio"