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German was used in local schools and churches, while numerous Vereine, associations dedicated to literature, humor, gymnastics, and singing, sprang up in German American communities. German Americans tended to support the German government's actions, and, even after the United States entered World War I, they often voted for antidraft and ...
In an attempt to attract German immigrants to the nearby St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern Railway, the city was named after German chancellor Otto von Bismarck. [19] During World War I, a group of citizens who saw the name as "un-American" petitioned to change the name of the city to "Loyal," but the proposal was rejected by most of the ...
Pages in category "German communities in the United States" The following 28 pages are in this category, out of 28 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Uruguay, known for a German community. Germans of Paraguay. Germans, mostly from outside the borders of Germany, in the rest of Latin America, especially: German-Puerto Ricans (and a similar community in the Virgin Islands). Heavy concentration of German, Austrian and Swiss descendants in Southern Chile. (German Chileans).
Before World War II, the Nazi Party sought to gain the loyalty of the German-American community, and established pro-Nazi German-American Bunden, emphasizing German-American immigrant ties to the "Fatherland". The Nazi propaganda effort failed in the Pennsylvania Dutch community, as the Pennsylvania Dutch felt no sense of loyalty to Germany.
The Great Valley Road used by settlers in the 1700s America. _____ See Google map of this area. Map of the Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia and parts of West Virginia is home to a long-established German-American community dating to the 17th century.
Alger Hiss – American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, original surname of "Hesse" [472] Jimmy Hoffa – labor union leader and author [473] J. Edgar Hoover – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Lena Kleinschmidt – jewel thief; Fritz Kuhn – German American ...
Missouri communities motivated by the war attempted to outlaw German, and campaigned to change street names from "offensive-sounding" German to acceptable American names. [9] [10] Hermann German is a form of Rhenish German (German: Rheindeutsch), and there are other German settlements and German American farms where German is still spoken to ...