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  2. German Americans in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    A popular Union commander and native German, Major General Franz Sigel was the highest ranking German-American officer in the Union Army, with many Germans enlisting to "fight mit Sigel." Sigel was a political appointment of President Abraham Lincoln , who hoped that Sigel's immense popularity would help deliver the votes of the increasingly ...

  3. German prisoners of war in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Prisoners could not be used in work directly related to the military or in dangerous conditions. The minimum pay for enlisted soldiers was $0.80 (equivalent to $15 in 2023) a day, roughly equivalent to the pay of an American private. In 1943 the government estimated that prisoner labor cost 50 to 75% of normal free labor.

  4. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United States

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    Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...

  5. Georg Gaertner - Wikipedia

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    Georg Gärtner (German pronunciation: [ˈɡeːɔʁk ˈɡɛʁtnɐ]; December 18, 1920 – January 30, 2013) was a German World War II soldier who was captured by British troops and later held as a prisoner of war by the United States. He escaped from a prisoner of war camp, took on a new identity as Dennis F. Whiles, and was never recaptured. He ...

  6. Foreign enlistment in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    Scottish, Swedish, German, Irish, and French soldiers of the Union Army at Corinth, Mississippi. [1]Foreign enlistment in the American Civil War (1861–1865) reflected the conflict's international significance among both governments and their citizenry.

  7. German Americans - Wikipedia

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    "Germania" was the common term for German American neighborhoods and their organizations. [139] Deutschtum was the term for transplanted German nationalism, both culturally and politically. Between 1875 and 1915, the German American population in the United States doubled, and many of its members insisted on maintaining their culture.

  8. Operation Pastorius - Wikipedia

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    Operation Pastorius was a failed German intelligence plan for sabotage inside the United States during World War II.The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic American economic targets.

  9. Germans in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    He returned to Estonia after the war, but other German soldiers, such as David Ziegler, chose to stay and become citizens in the nation they had helped found. In addition, France had eight German-speaking regiments with over 2,500 soldiers. [92] The famous Lauzun's Legion included both French and German soldiers, and was commanded in German. [93]