Why did so many Germans immigrate to The United States?

Why did so many Germans immigrate to The United States?
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  • @SJB70
    @SJB70 Жыл бұрын

    My hometown of Frederick, Maryland used to be super German. Germans from Pennsylvania came down and settled, German was the one of the main languages up till the mid 1800s. One of the oldest surviving structures here is an old German homestead called Schifferstadt. It was built in the 1750s and is still in decent condition. My mother's family is primarily German, they left from Rhineland-Palatinate. They settled in Lancaster, PA in the 1750s then moved west to Bedford. They were gunsmiths and inn keepers. They made Pennsylvania Long Rifles for a few generations. I actually have one of the few rifles left. Plus our old tavern is on the National Registry of Historical Places.

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    Nice. Schifferstadt is the name of a city in the Palatinate, mainly known for its wrestling tradition today. Stadt means city and Schiffer is a sailor on a riverboat.

  • @SJB70

    @SJB70

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Eddi.M. I never knew that about the Schiffer meaning. That's pretty cool. Frederick, Maryland has a sister city agreement with Schifferstadt and another town called Morzheim. The first actual settler, not just the person who owned it on paper, came from Morzheim and settled in 1745. Still a lot of German heritage in our area. We even have our own word for Fastnacht donuts, we call them Kinklings. My grandmother used to make them.

  • @aguy9175

    @aguy9175

    Жыл бұрын

    Pure curiosity: can you apply for a German passport if you have an ancestry like what you described? (

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    @@aguy9175 Germany throws a passport on everyone who is asking for it. I know that if you had an Italian grandfather you will get the Italian passport. Never heard anything like that about Germany, though.

  • @lumbiniashutoshtambat5871

    @lumbiniashutoshtambat5871

    Жыл бұрын

    Family history’s so cool !! 😃

  • @lemagnifique1573
    @lemagnifique1573 Жыл бұрын

    As a non-American, i always found that many famous Americans have German surnames like Donald Trump, Robert Mueller, David Hasselhoff, Norman Schwarzkopf, Dwight Eisenhower, Andy Biersack, Brooks Wackerman, Freddy Krueger, Maggie Lindemann, Nicole Scherzinger, etc. Even some American companies have German-sounding names like Kraft Foods, Heinz, Anheuser-Busch, Budweiser, Boeing, Hellmann's, Merck, Pfizer, Koch Industries, etc.

  • @arnodobler1096

    @arnodobler1096

    Жыл бұрын

    John Jacob Astor first Multimillionaire Waldorf Astoria Steinway Pianos (Steinweg in German) Levi´s Levi Strauss General Steuben Steuben Parade in NY

  • @constantinethecataphract5949

    @constantinethecataphract5949

    Жыл бұрын

    Spoilers, at least half of those are jews not German

  • @scrabbymcscrotus7481

    @scrabbymcscrotus7481

    Жыл бұрын

    @@arnodobler1096 jeffrey epstein and harvey weinstein as well. oops they are not cool right??

  • @9delta988

    @9delta988

    Жыл бұрын

    Trumph is scottish heritage

  • @ElectrostatiCrow

    @ElectrostatiCrow

    Жыл бұрын

    @@9delta988 His father's side came from Germany. Only his mother's side was Scottish.

  • @karenwaddell9396
    @karenwaddell9396 Жыл бұрын

    It was Not only for religious reasons. My grandfather in 1913 came to eastern Montana. In Germany he was a peddler. Rode in a cart and traded things. He wanted opportunity and had a relative in Montana. He became “the Potato King’ of Montana because of taking the worst land and raising the best red potato shipped to Chicago. He was 3’7” tall, a cripple, father of 8. The local newspaper in Baker Montana did the column on his farming. The headline? “Alien Crpple Potato King”. I am so proud of him and find hope in their life struggle which transfers to my own.

  • @koushikdas1992

    @koushikdas1992

    Жыл бұрын

    And nowadays what does your family do? Farming business or what?

  • @corporalpunish6089

    @corporalpunish6089

    Жыл бұрын

    3'7" and a cripple. Answered to the name Lucky

  • @wittysatan3821

    @wittysatan3821

    Жыл бұрын

    There ain't hope for Karen's tbh

  • @SendingRuzzkis2heaven24_7

    @SendingRuzzkis2heaven24_7

    Жыл бұрын

    And how tall are you😉

  • @jameshudson169

    @jameshudson169

    Жыл бұрын

    Are you counting Austrians as German?

  • @backhandgrip23
    @backhandgrip234 ай бұрын

    My great grandfather came to America as a child in 1852. They came because of famine in Germany. He became bi-lingual and enlisted in the Civil War. He was put in charge of a company of German American soldiers who did not know English and rose to the rank of Captain in 4 years.

  • @ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster

    @ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster

    Ай бұрын

    Go back! This is an English colony

  • @asmirann3636

    @asmirann3636

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster Germans are one of the biggest migrant population in the world with respect to percentage of German origin people living outside Germany and within Germany. At least 50% of German origin people do not even live in Germany. They live in colonies developed by English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Dutch. But back in Europe the same Germans tried everything to destroy the very same countries. So Germans are the metaphorical people who bite the hand that feeds them.

  • @michaelbayer5094

    @michaelbayer5094

    Ай бұрын

    The video sadly did not mention Carl Schurz and the German-American committment to the Union cause in the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

  • @6killer426

    @6killer426

    Ай бұрын

    @@ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlsteryeah he needs to go back his people brought communism en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_Communist_Club to America where it festered for over 50 years and financed the Bolshevik Revolution right from New York. The people have became the perfect Marxist democrats of today

  • @6killer426

    @6killer426

    23 күн бұрын

    @@michaelbayer5094it didn’t mention Schurz because his mammy was a Sephardic jewess her family were kicked out by Ferdinand & Isabella then moved to Holland then Germany. Where she saw to it that Carl got a good Jesuit education. Carl was a Marxist like his buddies Franz Sigel & August Willich they started what became the New York Communist Club

  • @lissandrafreljord7913
    @lissandrafreljord7913 Жыл бұрын

    Germans also had an influence in developing American cuisine. The classic all-American hamburger and hot dogs are examples of German immigrant mark in American cuisine. The hamburger gets its name from the city of Hamburg, rumored to be created in Germany or by a German American immigrant, and the hot dog is basically a frankfurter/wiener sausage in a bun. The iconic American sauce Ketchup was also popularized by the German American Henry J. Heinz, who founded Heinz Ketchup, and is apparently related to Trump. And of course, who can forget the American lagers. The Big 3 American draft beer companies Budweiser, Coors, and Miller were founded by German Americans Adolphus Busch, Eberhard Anheuser, Adolph Hermann Joseph Kuhrs (Coors), Jacob Schuler, Friedrich Eduard Johannes Müller (Miller). Notice how Kuhrs and Müller Anglicized their names to appear more marketable and be less discriminated in America. You can also see German influence in American industrialism, Lutheran Protestant values, and even in fashion. American fashion is all about comfort and practicality, very much like German fashion. They wear socks with sandals, we wear socks with slippers. Levi Strauss, a German American, founded Levi's, the first company that manufactured blue jeans. Even minimalist New York based fashion designers like Calvin Klein, Donna Karan (Donna Ivy Faske) are of German descent.

  • @stevensteelforce2701

    @stevensteelforce2701

    Жыл бұрын

  • @kellishymka6132

    @kellishymka6132

    Жыл бұрын

    Now that is cool information!!!!!!!

  • @leviturner3265

    @leviturner3265

    Жыл бұрын

    Hamm's, and Pabst Blue Ribbon are also American lagers founded by Germans, as is Schlitz although that beer is largely, or fully defunct. It was however, in the 1950's a competitor for the best selling beer, against Budweiser. Chicken fried steak is a variation of Schnitzel, created by German immigrants. My great grandmother, and her family were Volga Germans, who left Russia for the United States. I never met her, but as a kid while she was very advanced in age. I have heard, however she could make very good Apfelstrudel. My mother's stepfather was also German, he moved over shortly after the war. He loved to eat meat, especially veal. In the United States, veal is much less common than it is in the Fatherland.

  • @PaulBrower-py7tv

    @PaulBrower-py7tv

    Жыл бұрын

    The video did not mention German Jews or German-speaking Jews from Germany, Austria,-Hungary, Russian Poland, and Baltic countries. These people were important in establishing much of what is American today.

  • @lindaeasley5606

    @lindaeasley5606

    Жыл бұрын

    US Diplomat John Kerry was married to Heinz heiress Theresa Heinz. She died of cancer during the GW Bush administration

  • @sunshinelively
    @sunshinelively Жыл бұрын

    All 4 of my grandparents were German immigrants who settled in New York Chicago and Missouri. All were poor and without options in Germany in the early 20th Century. They came here to make a new life. They improved their circumstances and their children, my parents, improved their lot considerably. My grandparents sacrificed a lot for future generations.

  • @maxinla2501

    @maxinla2501

    Жыл бұрын

    All of my ancestors in the beginning of the 20th century were extremely poor too. Their children all improved their circumstances as well after WW2. This is in France, Alsace-Lorraine (part of the German Empire). I think most people in the West got out of poverty in the 20th century.

  • @sunshinelively

    @sunshinelively

    Жыл бұрын

    @@maxinla2501 I never thought about it before but you’re right, probably the majority were in poverty until the 20th Century. I am grateful of their bravery to go for it like that! ❤️

  • @gardy4390

    @gardy4390

    Жыл бұрын

    I am 💯 % German, born & raised over there came over here as a young woman became a U S A citizen after 5 years & always love ❤️ this beautiful country .Was it difficult? Sometimes but mostly wonderful. I don't take anything for granted. I married a German American born in North Dakota also his parents were born over there . We had a great life except l lost him way to early because of cancer .He never complained about any of my cooking wich is kind of German American also .Yes l am greatful & thankful for the live I had & have .

  • @user-gh6ns2fd7t

    @user-gh6ns2fd7t

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gardy4390 Who is the most beautiful Germany or America

  • @gardy4390

    @gardy4390

    Жыл бұрын

    @@user-gh6ns2fd7t You ask me a stait question about 2 countries but l have to tell you l think the United States 🇺🇸 has so much more to offer. You can travel for days and you are still in the U S A .My mom came to visit us many times & she just loved here .She seen & knew more about this country than some people who were born here . Yes I do have the most beautiful memories just living in this country.

  • @tammygant4216
    @tammygant4216 Жыл бұрын

    I'm commenting because I'm kinda the odd ball here. To the best of my knowledge, I have no German ancestry (I'm a Black woman from a mid-sized town in south GA), but when I was 7, I moved to Germany (Army family). We moved there again when I was 14 and really felt like I was going home, or at least to a 2nd home. I was fluent in German at one time and still speak a pretty good smattering. If I ever had to leave the US, Germany would be my 1st choice of a new nation. Tschuss!

  • @dawnemile7499

    @dawnemile7499

    Ай бұрын

    Have you done a DNA test? You may look black but may have some German ancestry nevertheless.

  • @cresenteayo3638

    @cresenteayo3638

    16 күн бұрын

    Another choice is the Philippines. Spoke English even a 3 year old toddler, tropical climate, white fine beaches, low coast living and friendly people. Foreigners are most welcome with open arms whatever races. They get along with foreigners.

  • @ondago2

    @ondago2

    4 күн бұрын

    Do your DNA composition test. I'm Light to medium skinned "black" by US terms, with black parents and family but by 4 different DNA tests, relations and tree teaching, I'm confirmed 40% English/Irish and 60% West Coast port African. Most "black" Americans who aren't recently straight from Africa are in fact 10 to 50% "white" European d to "mingling"; forced or hidden consensually.

  • @redsiberian
    @redsiberian9 ай бұрын

    The amount of Germans that live in the United States is rlly impressive I would argue it’s the most dominant European ethnic group surpassing even the English and Spanish.

  • @xxxBradTxxx

    @xxxBradTxxx

    2 ай бұрын

    How about the Irish? My Grandma is German, but all my other grandparents have Irish surnames.

  • @Finnbobjimbob

    @Finnbobjimbob

    2 ай бұрын

    @@xxxBradTxxxNot even close

  • @killermonjero

    @killermonjero

    2 ай бұрын

    You mean like he just said in the video?

  • @tomasvrabec1845

    @tomasvrabec1845

    2 ай бұрын

    Neither German nor English, Nor French, nor the Spanish are the most dominant Ethnic group in the US. The US white Americans have developed a distinct ethnic group of their own separate from all the mentioned ones... You may have German or English Heritage... But you aren't English, Nor German. Same way as Britain, France, Spain or even parts of Germany have strong Roman Heritage but aren't Roman. Do you think that's a stretch? No it isn't. It took less than 300 years for Europeans to split up into different groups after Rome fell... It had been 300 years since the first settlers in the Americas. (it's actually been nearly half a century) It gets more hypocritical when US sees Latin Americans as their own separate race and ethnic groups... Not calling them Latin German, od South American Portuguese.... But they do so for themselves? Why... Btw- same goes for African Americans. They are in no way the same ethnic group as their ancestors in Africa. Heck, even less so given the far higher mixing among African slaves by simply being thrown together... By them all developing distinct offshoots from what their ancestral land was.

  • @wc2195

    @wc2195

    2 ай бұрын

    @@tomasvrabec1845😂

  • @benjaminwatt2436
    @benjaminwatt2436 Жыл бұрын

    In Fredericksburg Texas I met some older gentlemen who still speak German. I disagree with the lack of preservation of German culture. In The "Hill Country" part of Texas German Texans maintain a very high level of cultural German customs, even speaking German. They are well known for German bakeries, restaurants and architecture. We have many societies and museums that are just for how important German immigrants where here in Texas

  • @Spongebrain97

    @Spongebrain97

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah there does exist SOME German speakers but as a whole, nah most German Americans don't speak it nor do they really hold onto any old traditions and probably dont care to sadly. If you Google it only a little over 1 million Americans speak German which is a tiny amount of the overall 49 million German American population. It's same with other European ethnicities especially the Irish, Italians, Polish. In those small community preservation areas they do but it's not really common. In person when Iv met and asked some white people about their family history like where they came from, they usually only have a loose idea and dont really seem interested in finding out which came as a shock to me

  • @benjaminwatt2436

    @benjaminwatt2436

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Spongebrain97 for sure that is the majority. But there are pockets where German culture is highly valued and plays an important part of the community. Like I said in several parts of Texas you can see a very large influence. I'm not sure where you are from but here it is prominent, in the festivals, food and historical sites

  • @garendeerdnuss5417

    @garendeerdnuss5417

    Жыл бұрын

    Spannend zu hören das immer noch deutsch in Texas gesprochen wird. Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland

  • @scottfoster2639

    @scottfoster2639

    Жыл бұрын

    German preservation in Fredericksburg is only due to an aggressive campaign to keep it German. Most former German towns and their culture has been erased because of the 'cultural genocide' led by the La Raza types. Towns like Boerne, Uhlan, New Braunfels, Schertz, and others are basically one big taco stand.

  • @BillyBob-oi9kl

    @BillyBob-oi9kl

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Spongebrain97 I don't think it's that they don't care. It's that they were persecuted during the world wars, so they were more less forced to become more Americanized.

  • @GarrettGarciaVideo
    @GarrettGarciaVideo Жыл бұрын

    My great-grandfather was ethnically German but raised in modern Peru (Chile at the time). He came to Detroit and worked for Ford as an English teacher to German factory workers. Then, during World War I, he got fired because his last name was German, even though he had no real connection to Germany, so he changed his last name to Garcia and the name is still in my family. He then got his job back and later moved to Brazil to help open Ford’s offices there. His son, my paternal grandfather, got a job teaching Portuguese at the US military academy in NY, where my dad was born. Lots of German immigrants headed to both North and South America. We’ve got a bit of both in the same story within 2 generations. 🇺🇸🇩🇪

  • @milvetcomics3366

    @milvetcomics3366

    Жыл бұрын

    My family on my dads side resided in the Detroit area from Germany. The last name was Alter and in fact Alter street in Detroit was named after one of them.

  • @al_caponeh6185

    @al_caponeh6185

    Жыл бұрын

    Judging from the place he came, he likely came from Tacna, since that territory was lost and later retieved back to Peru in 1929. Similarly my great great-grandfather from my mother's side also came to Peru but settled in Ayacucho. Originally, my mom told me when I was a toddler that he was likely a German Jew, his name was Joseph and at some point he changed his surname to Jerí(a common surname from that region), though with time his exact origin and why he came to Peru are still unclear to me, except that we know he came from central Europe.

  • @comradebroosk9396

    @comradebroosk9396

    Жыл бұрын

    My great great grandparents were ethnic Germans living in Russia (now modern Ukraine), but they immigrated to Brazil. They gave birth to my great grandmother there, then moved to Saskatchewan before heading down to Detroit. Apparently both the Brazilian and Canadian communities they lived in were popular for Germans of the same Ukrainian region.

  • @carlosacta8726

    @carlosacta8726

    Жыл бұрын

    What a fascinating story!

  • @iwasjustfollowingorders8068

    @iwasjustfollowingorders8068

    Жыл бұрын

    Ford built a whole town in the Amazon region of Brazil that is still called "Fordlandia". The reason was to source rubber

  • @germericancraftsman
    @germericancraftsman7 ай бұрын

    I wasn't familiar about all those details, but i'am happy and proud to know now. Absolutely looking forward to next year, finaly following the footsteps of mine and your ancestors to see America. Greetings, your German brother from Rhineland - Palatinate 🇺🇸🤝🏻🇩🇪

  • @sayandebhalder1618

    @sayandebhalder1618

    3 ай бұрын

    Go back to Germany 😂

  • @Mr.Genius369

    @Mr.Genius369

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@sayandebhalder1618what's your nationality

  • @d.e.b.b5788
    @d.e.b.b5788 Жыл бұрын

    My great great great grandfather brought his family to the U.S. back in the 1840's, to escape the local wars going on in Germany. He only brought his youngest 3 children, leaving the older ones who wanted to stay there on their own. They came to the NYC area, and settled in Staten Island, then moved to New Jersey. Now we're scattered all over the country.

  • @theoBaba773

    @theoBaba773

    Жыл бұрын

    So basically you're distant cousins family are still back in Germany. I wonder how they're doing now

  • @theemirofjaffa2266

    @theemirofjaffa2266

    7 ай бұрын

    Are you in touch in anyway with your relatives who remained in Germany?

  • @jongerdemann2824
    @jongerdemann2824 Жыл бұрын

    My family came from Germany in the 1830s because of Godfried Duden’s book, describing the Missouri River Valley as a paradise much like the Rhine. They settled along with family and neighbors from their hometown, and established primarily German speaking communities in Missouri, which didn’t become primarily English speaking until about 100 years later.

  • @nole8923

    @nole8923

    Жыл бұрын

    Missouri River valley. Like the Rhine, but what they didn’t tell him was it had 100 times more insects. If the United States isn’t anything else, it’s a land with an infinitesimal amount of insects. The birds never starve in the summer here.

  • @davidkottman3440

    @davidkottman3440

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nole8923 Missouri River: too thick to drink & too thin to plow! My ancestors settled within a few miles of it in 1800s.

  • @timothykeith1367

    @timothykeith1367

    Жыл бұрын

    Hermann Missouri is a picturesqe town

  • @markkasten8925

    @markkasten8925

    Жыл бұрын

    My great grandfather arrived in Wisconsin in1838 was one of founder's of Cedarburg Wisconsin. He had farm on the confluence of Milwaukee River and cedar creek. The one room school house my father went to still stands as does his house made of field stone.my father went on to invent the door light in the 1960s and then the two piece aluminum pop top can.later he helped set up beverage can lines in Australia and Japan never got rich or famous but we had a good life! My grand father died in 1979 at age of 96 his name was Charles Karsten. The farm was sold in 1982,my father's name is Lawrence kasten another success story that could only happen in America. May God bless America and the United States marine Corp.

  • @patrick.bergmann

    @patrick.bergmann

    Жыл бұрын

    I can tell by your name. 😀 „mann“ at the end is very typical for German surnames. Manly they are jobs.

  • @Hand-in-Shot_Productions
    @Hand-in-Shot_Productions Жыл бұрын

    I am an American who is interested in Germany (and whose ancestors may have been from nearby Austria), and I found this quite informative! I knew that the Germans are the largest ethnic group in the US, but I didn't know all 50 states have populations of more than 4.5%. Thanks for the video! Subscribed!

  • @darth6274

    @darth6274

    Жыл бұрын

    Technically, Austrians are also Germans... its a complicated history: Germany was for a long time not a united Country, rather lose Federation/patchwork of semi-indipendent States. The two big players within this Federation were Prussia (no longer exists today) and Austria-Hungary (only Austria and much smaller nowadays). In short order, there was a war between the two in 1866, Prussia united or subdued most of the other States and threw Austria out.

  • @gytan2221

    @gytan2221

    Жыл бұрын

    @@darth6274 I mean Austrians are also German speakers and they are ethically and culturally very similar to Germans.

  • @brettk9316

    @brettk9316

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah half my relatives were from Austria as well.

  • @MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia

    @MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia

    Жыл бұрын

    kzread.info/dash/bejne/dZl_tdKpd6fIo8o.html No mention of the true German city in Michigan called Frankenmuth??; A famous city I may add.. Even everything looks like Germany there and they still have a German diet. Frankfort too...

  • @IdiotBoxProductionsTV

    @IdiotBoxProductionsTV

    Жыл бұрын

    @@darth6274 Prussia should be returned to Germany

  • @shirleybalinski4535
    @shirleybalinski4535 Жыл бұрын

    My mother's family came to Michigan following the American Civil War. They settled in Central lower Penninsula in an area that was to become heavily German. Speaking German was quite prevalent until around the 1950's. I lived for years in Michigan's " Thumb" area, also heavily German. German was taught in HS until the 1980's. Both areas, along with many others in Michigan, are primarily crop/ dairy farms.

  • @shirleybalinski4535

    @shirleybalinski4535

    Жыл бұрын

    @Alfonso Di Grezia ..didn't matter. There are still places today where the older generation speaks German when out togather or in public. No different than my In laws speaking Polish or any other language. Where I was baptized was German Luthern. Services were conducted in German until mid 1950's. The Only USA lost having German as our national language by 1( one) vote in the late 1700's.

  • @1962recon
    @1962recon Жыл бұрын

    Speaking for my own family line, my great great grandfather was a draft dodger. He had no intention of dying for the Kaiser while fighting the Prussians. He immigrated to Texas around 1854, and many of us are still in Texas. He was once told, "They are looking for you in Germany." To which he responded, "Oh, they are there, and I am here."

  • @AngelGonzalez-yb6gu
    @AngelGonzalez-yb6gu Жыл бұрын

    An American person of German descent once explained to me that German-Americans used to be very self-aware of their heritage, but after WWI there was a sentiment of paranoia regarding the loyalty of German-Americans and this lead to many of them to become more shy about their heritage, which lead to a decline in the use of German language in some rural towns and even some people changing their German last names to English ones. This reminded me to the book "In cold blood", when at the beginning Capote mentions the Clutter family, who's ancestors came from Germany and their last name originally was "Klopper". And of course, Hitler and WWII didn't make this any better. However, I'd say the German-Americans I've met are very aware of their heritage but not to the extend of wishing to learn the German language or become obsessed about it, but like they could take their children to some German-American town to show them their German roots and symbolic things like this. And I see nothing wrong about it. Actually, people of German descent in South America are waaaaaaay more cocky about it than in the US.

  • @oodlesofnoodles4660

    @oodlesofnoodles4660

    Жыл бұрын

    I have a book by GS Viereck published in 1931 (now out of print) describing the use and machinations of propaganda before and during WW1. Viereck himself was a propagandist for the Germans and stated very clearly that Germany wanted America to join the war on their side and spent great sums of money to pursue this end, which they considered very plausible. Ultimately they were unsuccessful but it does make one wonder how different the world might have been had they succeeded. No treaty of Versailles means Hitler probably wouldn't have risen to power.

  • @MG-wk2eh

    @MG-wk2eh

    Жыл бұрын

    Britain was very good at stirring up anti-German sentiment in the US (at the political level, which of course trickled into the culture) during that period. The sinking of HMS Lusitania (that killed innocent American civilians) by German submarines was the fault of Britain. It was a legitimate military target in WW1 because it was carrying military armaments. Britain went to great lengths to cover that up to ensure there was no outrage in the States directed at Britain. Britain effectively tried to use American civilians as human shields. After the war, when the truth came out, a lot of Americans (including American WW1 vets who had fought in France in 1917/1918 and lost numerous friends, or were even injured themselves) were bitter towards Britain about it and it's one of the reasons why isolationism was wildly popular until the Pearl Harbor attack. Most Americans desperately wanted to stay out of another European war.

  • @MarkAnderson-ng8vc

    @MarkAnderson-ng8vc

    Жыл бұрын

    One will see more German flags flying in the American midwest than in Germany, of course because in the US it's seen as neat to be in touch with one's heritage. But yeah in South America I don't think they assimilated as quickly and also it's hard not to stand out given the differences between Spanish and German culture. By contrast in the US and Canada it was fairly easy for Germans to become basically WASPS within a couple generations.

  • @metal_fusion

    @metal_fusion

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MarkAnderson-ng8vc Not only that German-American were faced with prejudice our Asian-Americans friends faced the same problematic with racial discrimination. It is a poorly crime for Americans to murder and discrimination against humans

  • @genevievemcculloch1868

    @genevievemcculloch1868

    Жыл бұрын

    My dad said the same thing.

  • @CJGuy01
    @CJGuy01 Жыл бұрын

    My mother's family are German-American, one ancestor came in through the New Orleans ports, made their first dollar helping to pump water off their paddle boat when it ran aground in the Mississippi. Another ancestor was a board a German warship in LA or SF, he went AWOL and hid in a bar for a week, with molasses being his only food. Most of my mother's family came from East Friesia, current day Lower Saxony. Poor farm ground and they were mostly poor farmers. My father's family though has some Pen Dutch in him too. Don't know as much about that.

  • @CJGuy01

    @CJGuy01

    Жыл бұрын

    Hitler also thought that because of the massive German population, America would side with him at first, but that was squashed real soon.

  • @2wheels1guy25

    @2wheels1guy25

    Жыл бұрын

    You should visit west Lower Saxony aka east Frisia. It’s flatter than a pancake but super beautiful.

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    Did you notice that your arms are longer than average? (There is a whole class of jokes, which deal with Eastern Frisians. This one refers to the many ditches in the flatland to drain the meadows. So wherever a guy from that area walks, he leaves a ditch left and right his tracks... 🤣)

  • @justinarzola4584

    @justinarzola4584

    Жыл бұрын

    I haven't seen German Americans who know the language or culture.

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    @@justinarzola4584 I have been only once in the States and travelled Texas, Georgia and NYC. In Texas, I met some elderly who spoke near-German so that we could communicate. The cultural part, though, was little more than touristic facade. Germans have always been very adaptive, almost submissive. You should listen to the youngsters in Germany today. What they speak among themselves isn't German either. There is a young guy from Cincinnati with German ancestry, Josh, who learned German at school and so well that he speaks it accent-free. He joined a girl from Munich living in Cincinnati in a podcast named "Understanding Train Station" (= German phrase for being clueless). Also here on YT. So there are a lot of nuances as always in life.

  • @John_Fugazzi
    @John_Fugazzi Жыл бұрын

    I was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, a city built largely by German Immigration in the 19th century. For that reason it had a great symphony orchestra, opera, and a May choral festival. It had a great zoo, and great bakeries, restaurants and had many great local breweries until the 80s when everybody switched to heavily advertised national beers.

  • @rediron44

    @rediron44

    2 ай бұрын

    The city still has most of that. Plus a huge Octoberfest

  • @videogamefreak221122
    @videogamefreak221122 Жыл бұрын

    A lot of Americans of German descent anglicized their names after WW1 and WW2. One of my best friends in high school had the last name Shoemaker, which after doing an ancestry test, he discovered that on old records Schumacher was how it was written, right before world war 1. Of course, they both mean the same thing in both languages, and are pronounced very similarly, but it’s interesting nonetheless

  • @robertmontague1216

    @robertmontague1216

    3 ай бұрын

    Because of the Anti German hysteria fueled by Wilson

  • @sarc9807

    @sarc9807

    2 ай бұрын

    Well this happened all around the world and while it's sad if you look at it now , i totally understand that reaction 😅

  • @irishmjk427
    @irishmjk427 Жыл бұрын

    Irish/German here. Let's not forget to thank the Germans for the food/drink they introduced us to.

  • @familyandfriends3519

    @familyandfriends3519

    Жыл бұрын

    And for causing so much pain in the world

  • @lnfused

    @lnfused

    Жыл бұрын

    @@familyandfriends3519 Germany is one of the most excellent countries to ever exist and still is to this day. They outperform practically everyone in 90% of areas. Also, Hitler was Austrian if that’s what you’re eluding to. You’d do the same as a German soldier if you were there too. It was either that or kneel next to a grave and get shot in the back of the head.

  • @irishmjk427

    @irishmjk427

    Жыл бұрын

    @@familyandfriends3519 So much Joy as well. Apple Strudel is amazing. German desserts are the best.

  • @familyandfriends3519

    @familyandfriends3519

    Жыл бұрын

    @@irishmjk427 go back to Germany

  • @aldosigmann419

    @aldosigmann419

    Жыл бұрын

    ​@@familyandfriends3519 Is that what they told you to say at NPC school son...?

  • @patrick.bergmann
    @patrick.bergmann Жыл бұрын

    Over here in Germany we got a few museums in old ships, that used to bring our ancestors over to the USA. My Grandparents all got some relatives that moved to the US.

  • @asmirann3636

    @asmirann3636

    Ай бұрын

    That is real bad. Germany which also happens to be one of the most xenophobic countries is also a country with the most outward migrants (as a percentage of its population). Only the Germans are capable of such hypocrisy. Migrate in millions each year to Native lands, spread extremism and culture of m*ss murder. And still blame some imaginary foreigners or groups for all their problems.

  • @ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster

    @ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster

    14 күн бұрын

    But why

  • @Lazyballs37
    @Lazyballs3711 ай бұрын

    This is so cool to know. Some of my ancestors immigrated in the late 1700s and the others immigrated in the 1850s. One side of my family were mostly jewelers, while the other side contributed in building the first concrete roads in Chicago in the 1900s and also were in the Chicago Police back when they used revolvers and those weighted batons. We still have the early 1900s revolver and baton that my relative carried. That baton would not be nice to be hit by.

  • @aidanheaney5301
    @aidanheaney5301 Жыл бұрын

    So Im actually from a small German town in mid-Missouri along the Missouri river! We are ultra German and actually spoke German as a primary language and taught our schools with federal permission up until world war 1! I work at the German state historic museum here and you guys nailed it!

  • @richardshiggins704

    @richardshiggins704

    Жыл бұрын

    Aidan , you must a rare Shannon (river in Ireland) German with reference to the Volga Germans !

  • @blancavelasquez9859

    @blancavelasquez9859

    Жыл бұрын

    is it Hermann, such a cute little town

  • @aidanheaney5301

    @aidanheaney5301

    Жыл бұрын

    @@blancavelasquez9859 YES! It absolutely is! I work at the Deutschiem State Historic Site!

  • @PremierCCGuyMMXVI
    @PremierCCGuyMMXVI Жыл бұрын

    I always wondered why so many Americans considered themselves of German ancestry. Good video.

  • @guynorth3277

    @guynorth3277

    Жыл бұрын

    As a grandson of a German immigrant (1890), this was very interesting.

  • @myhonorwasloyalty

    @myhonorwasloyalty

    Жыл бұрын

    Traitors should never had betrayed germany in ww2

  • @yessir889

    @yessir889

    Жыл бұрын

    @@myhonorwasloyalty you do know what Germany did during ww2 right?

  • @richardalex4516

    @richardalex4516

    Жыл бұрын

    @@myhonorwasloyalty Nazism was popular in America and had wealthy benefactors but Japan threw all that out the window. Either way Germany screwed up by going after the Soviets.

  • @doktorquanton4069

    @doktorquanton4069

    Жыл бұрын

    I don’t care who you’re ancestors are if your parents aren’t the first generation to migrate and/or you have no connection to the culture these ancestors came from… U ARE AN AMERICAN

  • @PrussianKami
    @PrussianKami Жыл бұрын

    My family left Germany after the war ended. Their home was gone and destroyed after the Soviets annexed East Prussia so since my grandpa was born in America when they lived there for a year during the depression, he was able to immigrate easily to the US

  • @ilonat8373

    @ilonat8373

    Жыл бұрын

    Please not victimize the Nazi...Germany destroyed Soviet Union nothing in Germany was destroyed for no reason

  • @frederikbusche1052

    @frederikbusche1052

    Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting. Do you remember if your family spoke the lovely East Prussian dialect?

  • @PrussianKami

    @PrussianKami

    Жыл бұрын

    @@frederikbusche1052 I do not unfortunately. I’ve never heard my grandfather speak German and he’s the last living relative that grew up there. He did write down his accounts from living there tho, so that’s neat 👍

  • @antebellumstage

    @antebellumstage

    Жыл бұрын

    @@frederikbusche1052 so sad how prussia just wanished into thin air

  • @mechupaunhuevon7662

    @mechupaunhuevon7662

    Жыл бұрын

    @@antebellumstage you reap what you sow

  • @USAR8888
    @USAR8888 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for this video. I just did an extensive family tree recently and was surprised to see just how thoroughly German both my mom and dad's families are, including a line traced through my great grandma Hess back to a Duchess of Wurttemberg in the early 1500s. One of my great great great grandfathers was one of the Germans who fled mandatory military conscription. I grew up in a town called Germantown, and all the local family names are German. Many of the older people, like my grandmother, still speak a little German and I remember my great grandmother on dad's side spoke fluent German. 2 of her cousins were actually in the German army during WW2, both were killed. She had another German cousin, a 19 year old girl, who also died during the war in Germany, I assume from bombing. Then she had another relation, I cant remember, maybe brother in law, who was in the US Army during the war. I often wonder how she felt during WW2 and would love to go back in time and talk to her about it. She had many old family heirlooms from Germany and old books in German that my grandmother now has. Her husband my great grandpa Schneider (parents were German immigrants) was actually a self taught clock and watch maker, the stereotypical German skill set! I still remember a lot of the cuckoo clocks he made by hand, just incredible how naturally mechanically inclined Germans are!

  • @NazriB

    @NazriB

    Жыл бұрын

    Lies again? Entertaining Nazri Germany

  • @francoislepatriote3790
    @francoislepatriote379011 ай бұрын

    Today I have trouble guessing the German origins of some Americans. Because unlike Brazilians of German descent, Americans of German origin have changed the spelling of their names, anglicized their names. They mixed with British immigrants and suddenly it is very difficult to distinguish them from Americans of British, Irish descent.

  • @UnitedStates1997

    @UnitedStates1997

    10 ай бұрын

    Yes and German Brazilians tend to be cocky about their German heritage.

  • @twelvestitches984
    @twelvestitches984 Жыл бұрын

    Western North Dakota is also entirely German ancestry. My mothers mother was 7 years old when she arrived in the US on May 27, 1897 from Germany. She was with her two sisters and mother. They had to wait at Ellis Island until they received a letter from family living in North Dakota before they could enter the country because you had to have a sponsor. On June 15, 1897, Ellis Island caught fire and burned down. No one was hurt but they lost everything. My family came here and immediately lost everything but they worked hard, bought some land, planted crops, raised a family, built a two story house, and were successful.

  • @flyer7681
    @flyer7681 Жыл бұрын

    My 5th paternal great grandfather left the Rhineland Palatinate in 1752 with his family to land in Philadelphia. From there they moved to Lancaster. He and his oldest son fought in the Revolution. Very proud of my German ancestors🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪

  • @judithcoloma613

    @judithcoloma613

    Жыл бұрын

    fly7681-I wonder if my ancestors came on the same boat as yours. My folks settled in Nothumberland Co. near present day Sunbury. Surnames like "Dunkelberger", "Witmer", "Brosious", many different spellings are found on the books.

  • @oliveoil4380

    @oliveoil4380

    Жыл бұрын

    Mine too! Rhineland Palatinate. Family name Zimmer. Settled in Western Illinois and eastern Missouri.

  • @billwilson-es5yn

    @billwilson-es5yn

    Ай бұрын

    The Germans greatest contribution to the United States is BEER!!!

  • @mitchellsmith4690
    @mitchellsmith4690 Жыл бұрын

    My maternal grandfather was German, his wife of Welsh ancestory. The family name was Wilhelm, but was changed during the Great War to Williams. In my part of the US a large number of Catholics fled the Kulturekampf to settle here, and so parishes founded as German language churches.

  • @frankym69
    @frankym69 Жыл бұрын

    Im 33% German in my heritage and my ancestors migrated here before this country even came to be. Some Irish Scotch Italian and a little bit of Alaskan Inuit (somehow) along the way, but I'd absolutely love to go to Germany to visit. God bless Deutschland and God bless America. 🇺🇲🇩🇪

  • @albertmarnell9976
    @albertmarnell9976 Жыл бұрын

    I had two North German grandparents that struggled to leave in the 1920s after the war and economy collapsed. They came close to death so many times during WW l. By 1927, my mother at age 6 arrived with her mother on the Westphalia on Sept. 13th. The 3 of them were finally together. Their lives were a struggle and of course WW ll came and none of them were citizens so along with my father's parents born in Sicily, everyone had to register as an enemy alien. Struggle, change, pain, a few good times and here I am in my old age wondering what is coming next.

  • @prst99

    @prst99

    Жыл бұрын

    How were German enemy aliens treated in the US during WW2?

  • @albertmarnell9976

    @albertmarnell9976

    Жыл бұрын

    @@prst99 That depended. I do know that my family was not allowed to go on a plane or have a camera except for my father who was born here. His parents were from Palermo, Sicily and they had to register too. There were more restrictions. It is best if you Google it. There is so much that is not easily accessible except through testimony. Sometimes the children of German immigrants would come home from school and find that their parents were gone. You will have to do much reading and research. It obviously was not fun living with that label. The Japanese suffered the most. The Germans had it hard too. Each case was different. The Department of Justice oversaw the processing of the cases and the internment program. Although many were released or paroled after hearings before a local alien enemy hearing board, for many the adversarial hearings resulted in internment that, in a few cases, lasted beyond the end of World War II. Of those interned, there was evidence that some had pro-Axis sympathies. Many others were interned based on weak evidence or unsubstantiated accusations of which they were never told or had little power to refute. Often families, including naturalized or American-born spouses and children, of those interned voluntarily joined them in internment.

  • @albertmarnell9976

    @albertmarnell9976

    Жыл бұрын

    @@prst99 Just imagine that you have to carry a card and identify to others as an "Enemy Alien". How do you think that most people would treat you? I forgot how often my mother and her parents had to report to the local police precinct. I thought it was weekly but I really don't remember what my mother said except for about two anecdotes that occurred in the precinct in the city of New York.

  • @albertmarnell9976

    @albertmarnell9976

    Жыл бұрын

    @@prst99 While civilians of Japanese ancestry were subject to a three-tiered process of exclusion, removal, and internment, most of America's ethnic Germans and Italians were spared from one substantial component: they were not forced to endure a comprehensive program of removal followed by incarceration in WRA camps.

  • @albertmarnell9976

    @albertmarnell9976

    Жыл бұрын

    @@prst99 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

  • @paulwoida8249
    @paulwoida8249 Жыл бұрын

    My ancestors were mostly German. My father grew up speaking German at home. At one point, Minnesota was so heavily German that they painted the cafeteria in the state capitol to look like a German beer hall with proverbs and sayings in German on the ceiling. The room was repainted when we were at war with Germany. It was uncovered and restored some years ago.

  • @wszechbytdoskonay3071

    @wszechbytdoskonay3071

    Жыл бұрын

    You have a slavic lastname, if it is your lastname.

  • @danielbackley9301

    @danielbackley9301

    Жыл бұрын

    In Chicago the Germans were the largest ethnic group until the 1920s when the Poles finally passed them in numbers and until the first world war the public schools taught german. And before that in the 1860s-1890s they taught most classes using German in many of the schools while teaching English as a SECOND language.

  • @zeged34

    @zeged34

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wszechbytdoskonay3071 he said mostly german

  • @ricanredru4760

    @ricanredru4760

    Жыл бұрын

    @Jose Ortiz Americans are probably going to most likely slowly realize that and slowly transition into that state of mind. Spanish will definitely be a dominant language in that situation

  • @Hallo81398

    @Hallo81398

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ricanredru4760 imagine the seething when americans have to learn Spanish as the latin american population will soon be an absolute majority in southern states

  • @osgabriel20
    @osgabriel20 Жыл бұрын

    In Texas you have “Adelsverein” and “Fredericksburg” towns made by German migrants and settlers, all over the USA, German influence came on multiple waves due different factors, Germans have enriched the cultural makeup of the USA, Germany’s cultural ties with the USA, Canada, Australia, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, show how migrants can influence societies in a dynamic and civilised way. Thank you for such interest video.

  • @godscommandmentsaretruthis2837
    @godscommandmentsaretruthis2837 Жыл бұрын

    My German Great Grandpa went to Brazil to avoid the draft during WWI. Not too long ago one of his daughters went to Germany and the government let her know her Dad was a deserter. Amazing the records these people keep. Anyway, eventually the family emigrated from Brazil to the United States. The two southern most states of Brazil are made up mostly of Germans and Italians. I would love to see a video about how that happened.

  • @bixumbi

    @bixumbi

    Жыл бұрын

    My great grandfather came to Brazil, but settled in a German colony in a mountain town in the State of Rio de Janeiro. From what I know, the Brazilian governament (dictator Getúlio Vargas and prior to that too, Given that my ancestors arrived circa 1850) sympathized with the fascist regime, making it easy for Germans to get passports (the same in Argentina). Plus, they unfortunately wanted to 'whiten' Brazil, thus making a lot of propaganda in Germany to attract immigration (Italy too). Many came to work as farmers. Southern Brazil attracted many due to its relatively milder climate compared to the rest of Brazil. Anyways, I hope my history isn't wrong and that this was helpful to you

  • @godscommandmentsaretruthis2837

    @godscommandmentsaretruthis2837

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bixumbi That was interesting... thanks for sharing. My Dad's side of the family are Italian Brazilians. I went to northern Italy a few years ago and did an ancestry search there in the Fara/Lugo Di Vicenza area where my family is from. Northern Italy was so beautiful I couldn't figure out why so many Italians would leave their beautiful country to go to Brazil (even though I know Brazil was offering free land). So I went to the local courthouse and started talking to one of the government officials there. She told me poverty was terrible back in the day when my Great Grandpa emigrated to Brazil. She said they would call the poor people in the area "cat eaters" because they were so desperate for food. Looks like Brazil offered irresistible greener pastures to a lot of struggling people.

  • @bixumbi

    @bixumbi

    Жыл бұрын

    @@godscommandmentsaretruthis2837 My pleasure. Thanks for your story, also found it very interesting. Indeed, I think basically all these immigrants (whether German, Italian, Polish etc) were peasants who were dealing with hunger and poverty. Additionally, I also know that Southern Brazil was sparsely populated at the time, reason being why the government encouraged (white) immigrants.

  • @theemirofjaffa2266

    @theemirofjaffa2266

    7 ай бұрын

    ​@godscommandmentsaretruthis2837 my God! Those people are still salty that your grampa deserted from their stupid wars, even after a hundred years? 😅😅😂 I mean what can you do? You've got to preserve yourself, ain't it? Smh

  • @lobos320

    @lobos320

    2 ай бұрын

    My last name comes from the Germany language. That part of my ancestry were Swiss Mennonites who ended up in Virginia via Pennsylvania . Many Mennonites ended up in Latin America too. But my ancestry is mostly British isles and western Ukraine. My Ukrainian great grandparents are listed on immigration paperwork as Austrian because when they canme around 1910 a Western Ukraine was part of Austria-Hungary. So they were classed as Austrian but not ethnically German nor German speaking. V,@/ During the 1800s when Germans were coming to the US there were many going to Brazil, Argentina , Chile and other Latin American countries. . There are a lot of German last names you come across. (I would venture that Giselle Bundchen is the most well know German descended Latin American ) Sadly many people here in the US and elsewhere mistakenly think that any latin American with a German surname is a descendent of escaped Nazis . ( Yes there were some)( I would guess the number is on par with those Germans who came to the allied countries via operation paperclip) The vast majority of Latin American German descendents has ancestors who arrived long before the Nazis even existed. Giselle Bundchen is 6 th generation Brazilian . They emigrated for the same reason Germans came to the US

  • @thischannelhasnovideosenjoy
    @thischannelhasnovideosenjoy Жыл бұрын

    I live in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 and it is nice hearing about American history. 😀

  • @ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster

    @ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlster

    Ай бұрын

    Brother, your people founded America.

  • @wp6187

    @wp6187

    9 күн бұрын

    ​​@@ProudAngloIrishScotWelshUlsterAnd Germans (anglo saxons) founded England.

  • @cadian122
    @cadian122 Жыл бұрын

    I'm 1/4 German on my mother's Mother's side and my ancestor Heinrich Gerbe came from Hessen to New York in 1848 if I can remember the documents we found.. And he volunteered for the Union Army in 1864 in his 40s and was wounded in the Siege of Petersburg VA.. The funny thing is his records show he was in Artillery and 150 or so years later I was an Artillery Officer in the Army.

  • @alaska1790
    @alaska1790 Жыл бұрын

    I'm Australian and my German ancestors migrated to Australia in 1845 for the same reasons in this video. Lots of Germans migrated to Australia and helped create Australia.

  • @rebeccasunflower

    @rebeccasunflower

    2 ай бұрын

    Fellow Aussie here! Same! Mine immigrated in 1939 and 1845.

  • @JubilantAssuage
    @JubilantAssuage Жыл бұрын

    My Great Grandfather was William Penn’s land surveyor, was one of the 3 Dutch Patrons of Pennsylvania. His progeny hosted George Washington for 2 weeks at his estate called Pennypacker Mills leading up to the Battle of Germantown in 1777. The estate is still there today…

  • @danielnavarro537
    @danielnavarro537 Жыл бұрын

    An interesting thing is my great grandfather was Mexican American and served in the 45th US division. He then fought in Germany and married a German and both of them settled in Texas. 🇲🇽 🇩🇪 🇺🇸

  • @swtv1754

    @swtv1754

    Жыл бұрын

    @Ir liz Probably Mestizo. My grandfather was from Mexico, and I did the ancestry test and it was definitely mostly Amerindian, and Southern European with a little bit of the Middle East and West Africa thrown in.

  • @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    Жыл бұрын

    @@swtv1754 lot of Mexicans have German heritage too.

  • @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    Жыл бұрын

    @Ir liz true. But a small fraction of them do. Same applies to Irish ancestry.

  • @decrox13

    @decrox13

    Жыл бұрын

    @Ir liz Most Mexicans seem to think Americans are some kind of race. Then they're blown away when they see Americans of other races and backgrounds.

  • @alfredoangel2359

    @alfredoangel2359

    Жыл бұрын

    @Ir liz I think they actually have a lot. From what I’ve heard the Germans romanized their surnames into more Spanish sounding names. Also Mexico has the 3rd most Germans in all of Latin America only behind 1st Brazil and 2nd Argentina.

  • @chaseseal1151
    @chaseseal1151 Жыл бұрын

    I'm from the German belt in Texas. I even had friends who still spoke German in the household

  • @Mncrr
    @Mncrr Жыл бұрын

    My German great grandfather and his three brothers settled in Baltimore and were trained cabinet makers. They started their own company with a factory and a store there and were very involved in the German catholic community in Baltimore

  • @DaleStreble
    @DaleStreble Жыл бұрын

    My ancestors were forced out of the Black Forest around Baden-Baden circa 1855. They were farmers and due to famine unable to pay bills. The story is that they were given a coffee bag to pack what they could and a last meal and then sent via tobacco transporting ships to arrive in New Orleans. Also my great, great, great (?) grandfather, Wilhelm was not allowed to marry until after arriving in America, even though they already several children.

  • @onionman5724
    @onionman5724 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting fact, due to Wisconsin having similar geography to Germany, allot of Germans considered it to be 2nd germany.

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    Germany has a very large variation of landscapes from maritime to Alpine, from dry land to lush. Just tropical and subtropical are missing and the deserts are very small.

  • @jonasjanker2787

    @jonasjanker2787

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Eddi.M. I have been living in Germany my whole life and never saw a desert

  • @mlex1078

    @mlex1078

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Eddi.M. Deserts in germany? Lul

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jonasjanker2787 I have seen it on video only, but it is a desert. Check it out.

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    Lieberoser Wüste in South Brandenburg. Although Lüneburger Heide has vegetation and isn't a desert, it is very dry and sandy as well.

  • @nathanseper8738
    @nathanseper8738 Жыл бұрын

    Donald Trump has German heritage from his father’s side. But due to the unpopularity of Germans after the World Wars, Trump’s father claimed Swedish heritage for business reasons.

  • @bubbaclark4355

    @bubbaclark4355

    Жыл бұрын

    That explains a lot.

  • @barneyboyle6933

    @barneyboyle6933

    Жыл бұрын

    @@bubbaclark4355 like what?

  • @KennyNGA

    @KennyNGA

    Жыл бұрын

    Now Germans Claim swedish heritage due to his unpopularity

  • @galacthicc693

    @galacthicc693

    Жыл бұрын

    Hey I claimed to be transgender for lower car insurance so to each to his own

  • @SpazzyMcGee1337

    @SpazzyMcGee1337

    Жыл бұрын

    He was a business man, doing business.

  • @KarinAllison
    @KarinAllison Жыл бұрын

    I was born and raised in Germany and married an American from Southern California. I was always homesick in CA but once we moved to the Pittsburgh area (Moraine State Park), that homesickness dissipated because PA looks like home. As for the word of mouth, we have proof of that in my family on my mom's side - my maternal grandpa's great uncle Friedrich Schenk emigrated to Illinois in 1871 (only to marry a German woman 😂) and his letters are still in my mom's possession. He wrote about the price of pigs and what agricultural tools and machines the Americans had for jobs still done by hand in Germany at the time, and to come to the states for these great things. My grandpa told us that he remembers his folks saying they didn't believe those stories. Friedrich even addressed that in one letter saying all he ever wrote was nothing but the truth.

  • @joygeegemini9241
    @joygeegemini9241 Жыл бұрын

    My Mother's side of family immigrated from Germany during the 1880's & settled in Pennsylvania before moving onto Ohio. Dayton, Ohio is where they permanently settled. My Great Great Grandpa ran a Pretzel 🥨 Business before his son, my Great Grandfather started his Grocery Store business. Ohio seemed to always have a high population of German Americans, because every family member I have from there has German mixed in to them. Them as well as the many ppl I knew & grew up with while living there.

  • @normankenneth01

    @normankenneth01

    7 ай бұрын

    Hello joy How are you?

  • @bnbcraft6666
    @bnbcraft6666 Жыл бұрын

    I'm 75% German and my paternal ancestors moved to the U.S. in the 1720's from Alsace-Loraine and many more of my ancestors came from Switzerland and South-West Germany, the cool thing is the German population and language in America will continue to grow because of the Amish and Mennonite communities who have 6-7 kids and 3-4 kids respectively so German American culture will continue to thrive in the U.S. they even say Pennsylvania will be majority Amish in 100 years and Indiana and Ohio will follow suit in 120 years

  • @smashyboi6887

    @smashyboi6887

    Жыл бұрын

    What a time that’ll be 🙂

  • @ElectrostatiCrow

    @ElectrostatiCrow

    Жыл бұрын

    That's kinda funny. I keep imagining futuristic Amish people driving flying horse carriages.

  • @bnbcraft6666

    @bnbcraft6666

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ElectrostatiCrow they'll use Pegasus 😂

  • @bnbcraft6666

    @bnbcraft6666

    Жыл бұрын

    @@smashyboi6887 I think it's pretty cool, they're some of the most humble and hard working people you'll ever meet

  • @zeged34

    @zeged34

    Жыл бұрын

    At least amish are happy unlike most americans

  • @lairdmurray8957
    @lairdmurray8957 Жыл бұрын

    My family left after the Austrian Prussian war, my great great grandpa was a Bavarian soldier in it, he immigrated to the US and settled in philly

  • @andrewthacker114
    @andrewthacker11410 ай бұрын

    Very interesting. Thanks for sharing.

  • @markharder3676
    @markharder3676 Жыл бұрын

    A couple of additions worthy of mention: Breweries such as Budweiser (Czech-German-American), Leinenkugel, etc. Also, I believe it was in the 1830s when societies in Germany exported Germans to Central and EasternTexas, giving rise to towns with names like New Braunfels.

  • @a.f.7246

    @a.f.7246

    2 ай бұрын

    & Fredericksburg

  • @elijahweber8786
    @elijahweber8786 Жыл бұрын

    My family is part of the Volga Germans who came over in the late 1800's. My grandpa's parents spoke fluent German and my grandpa can speak a bit. There is quite a few of us around in Oklahoma. We still have some of the traditional food like bierocks. My grandpa also has a book that lists all of our family members going back centuries.

  • @vaskylark

    @vaskylark

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep, my mother's family were also Volga River Germans and settled in Kansas. They weren't really, they were just German in reality but they had left Germany for the Volga River where they were led to beleive they'd receive land. When they got there they found out that wasn't true so they turned back around and left and returned to Germany but then found out about America and the rest is history. My Grandmother spoke fluent German and several recipes have been passed down through the family.

  • @patrick.bergmann

    @patrick.bergmann

    Жыл бұрын

    I can tell by your surname. German surnames are jobs they used to have. My surname means „minor“. Yours is someone who makes clothes.

  • @johnshafer7214

    @johnshafer7214

    Жыл бұрын

    I have friends from Kansas who are Volga Germans too.

  • @patrick.bergmann

    @patrick.bergmann

    Жыл бұрын

    @@johnshafer7214 Schäfer = shepherd

  • @johnshafer7214

    @johnshafer7214

    Жыл бұрын

    @@patrick.bergmann I know my last name means Shepard.

  • @ebarteldes
    @ebarteldes Жыл бұрын

    My great-great grandfather immigrated here from Germany in 1867. His nephew, my great grandfather followed him years later

  • @colethompson2764

    @colethompson2764

    Жыл бұрын

    That doesn’t make any sense, it would be his son.

  • @ebarteldes

    @ebarteldes

    Жыл бұрын

    @@colethompson2764 his nephew joined him… okay then great great grand uncle?

  • @shaunw9092
    @shaunw9092 Жыл бұрын

    I'm of majority German descent, my first ancestor with my surname in America moved to Pennsylvania in about 1800 as a single man, 20 years old at most. He was from a fairly well-off family, but I learned from Ancestry and translated records that several of his siblings died as children in the late 1700s. He married the daughter of a Revolutionary War veteran from Greensburg, Pennsylvania in 1803 and he served in the War of 1812. Our family with many branches still mostly lives in Western Pennsylvania today.

  • @johnminster3205
    @johnminster320516 күн бұрын

    My father came over in 1922 without a word of English. He decided as soon he knew enough English to get by he would never speak German again. He loved America with all his heart.

  • @alanwalters8006
    @alanwalters8006 Жыл бұрын

    Volga German offspring here. Both sets of grandparents were Volga German immigrants as mentioned around the 4:30 mark. My parents were US born but were native German speakers until they learned English in "public" school taught by Catholic nuns (sisters). Most of the family settled in western Kansas (others in Wisconsin) which is was almost entirely German when it became settled for farming. Towns like Katarinastadt, Munjorstadt, Schoen-Schoen, etc. Hays nee Fort Hays, was the urban center for that community.

  • @johnshafer7214

    @johnshafer7214

    Жыл бұрын

    I know people who are Volga German in Hays Kansas. I am part German from Western Wisconsin.

  • @VanaeCavae
    @VanaeCavae Жыл бұрын

    To be honest, the same census allows people to identify as American. Many English Americans tend to identify as Americans rather than as English. The English Americans are actually the largest group in the U.S if you ask me. They are under counted and get split between American and English category during census taking.

  • @ChrisJohannsen

    @ChrisJohannsen

    Жыл бұрын

    No one is asking you, and you're wrong.

  • @sawyersprott

    @sawyersprott

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ChrisJohannsen You are objectively wrong. Look up the genetic studies done on White Americans. Non-British ancestry is massively overstated. For example, someone will have one great-grandparent who immigrated from Germany, and call themselves German, despite the fact that they would be a quarter German at most. The genetic studies show it unequivocally.

  • @RK-cj4oc

    @RK-cj4oc

    Жыл бұрын

    Its also leaving out the many tens of millions of Americans who are a mix all several european group. There are millions of "german americans" who identify as American too.And many millions of English Americans who mixed with other Europeans when in the USA.

  • @goggleman7211

    @goggleman7211

    Жыл бұрын

    @@sawyersprott Yup many quote on quote "ethnic" whites aren't even ethnic. George RR Martin thought he was a quarter Italian and it turns out his adoptive Italian grandfather was cucked.

  • @Space-yp8fi

    @Space-yp8fi

    Жыл бұрын

    How many white americans have african ancestry?

  • @Gizathecat2
    @Gizathecat2 Жыл бұрын

    My German ancestors came over between 1845 and 1868 settling in SE Missouri and SW Illinois. All but my great grandfather were farm folk. One of my great-great fathers was a younger son who couldn’t inherit the farm his family owned, so he, his family and his sister and her family all journeyed to MO and then to southern Illinois. Many of the families that came from Germany at this time were younger sons and their families. My great grandfather who came over in 1867 was a skilled carpenter who became at town’s undertaker who made coffins as well as furniture. Another g-g grandfather who arrived as a young adult went on to be an Illinois state senator. They may have been poor, but they were far from stupid! In the little town in Southern Illinois where my father grew up the last German language Easter service in the church was held in 1971.

  • @anniefannycharles9951
    @anniefannycharles9951 Жыл бұрын

    My Great Grandmother came from Germany in the 1910s as a young girl. Wanted to meet a nice German man so she would greet new German arrivals at the Baltimore docks. Met my great grandfather when he arrived from the Black Forest of Germany. They fell in love and moved to Collingwood New Jersey and opened up an Ice cream Parlor. They had 5 children. Very hard workers. Never spoke German outside of the home. Taught themselves English. I was 4 or 5 when my great grandmother passed but I can still to this day remember the wonderful smells of her kitchen. I'm 66.

  • @NijimaSan
    @NijimaSan Жыл бұрын

    My paternal grandmother was born in 1899 in Königsberg. They came over in 1911 through Ellis Island. She eventually ended up in Los Angeles, CA where she met my grandfather.

  • @RaymondCore
    @RaymondCore Жыл бұрын

    My German forefather left Palatinate Germany in the late 1600s because of religious persecution and settled in Rotterdam until 1717 when the family emmigrated to Landcaster County PA. In 1789, my forefather was released as a Captain in George Washington's Continental Army and promptly moved to what would be St. Tammany Parish LA. It was Spanish controlled at the time and he got a huge land grant on which the family operated a saw mill for a hundred years; cutting virgin timber for the docks and warehouses of New Orleans.

  • @jihadi-against-oppression

    @jihadi-against-oppression

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @arolemaprarath6615

    @arolemaprarath6615

    Жыл бұрын

    @@jihadi-against-oppression in Jesus name ameen

  • @cyrusthegreat7472

    @cyrusthegreat7472

    Жыл бұрын

    How do you know all of these?

  • @GalacticExplorer83

    @GalacticExplorer83

    Жыл бұрын

    @@cyrusthegreat7472 maybe stories passed down

  • @cattuslavandula
    @cattuslavandula Жыл бұрын

    Frankenmuth! A little Bavarian town in Michigan. Christmas all year round. Great chicken dinners. Oktoberfest.

  • @nightraven7244
    @nightraven7244 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting fact: Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pa. was founded in 1787 (as Franklin College) as a German College with instruction taking place in both English and German, making it the first bilingual college in the United States.

  • @MinecraftCool3
    @MinecraftCool3 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful video. I know my family came to America from Germany around 1870’s for farming and land.

  • @Jakob_Herzog
    @Jakob_Herzog Жыл бұрын

    My mother's maiden name was originally German when our ancestors came over but they spelled it wrong and my family just chose to go with that to make it easier

  • @nickvoncloft4566

    @nickvoncloft4566

    Жыл бұрын

    same lol although it was changed again shortly after to "seperate" part of the family from the violent side of the family.

  • @nekilik5925

    @nekilik5925

    Жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @guynorth3277

    @guynorth3277

    Жыл бұрын

    They whacked of the "owicz" on our last name, but the aunts and uncles put it on their father's (our grandpa's) stone.

  • @ChrisJohannsen

    @ChrisJohannsen

    Жыл бұрын

    My family moved to San Francisco in the 1850s and has pronounced our last name wrong for generations. Just like Scarlett Johansson does.

  • @benjaminwatt2436

    @benjaminwatt2436

    Жыл бұрын

    according to my Grandma, her family name, Gray, was changed from the German spelling, Graw, due to discrimination of Germanic people. its funny because these days everyone talks about discrimination if you were Hispanic or African American, but Germans and Italians among others were also strongly harassed, and these days those same groups are now lumped into the term "white" American

  • @CarstenMoreno
    @CarstenMoreno9 ай бұрын

    My maternal grandma is originally from Germany. Her name is Ingeborg, or Inge for short, but I always call her Omi. She was born in Oberschlesien (Upper Silesia) which is now part of Poland and she grew up in Olching, just west of Munich. She moved to America when she was 21 years old in November of 1958. I think she came from a working class family, which might explain why she didn't learn English til moving to the USA with the exception of some words. I also want to point out that I'm from Chicago (suburbs, not city) and I must say that Germans had an influence on our accent, including in Milwaukee and other nearby northern areas near the great lakes. This is called the "northern cities vowel shift", or inland northern accent. The general area featuring this accent stretches from northeast Pennsylvania and Upstate New York all the way to Minnesota. I can go on and on, but it was the Germans, Irish, Polish, and Italians that influenced the way Chicagoans speak!

  • @dorian4373
    @dorian437310 ай бұрын

    Great video thank you

  • @CrystalClearWith8BE
    @CrystalClearWith8BE Жыл бұрын

    Other than Germans, another European ancestries some of us know are Italian immigrants in Connecticut, New York state, New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Irish immigrants in New England.

  • @caranhaes6496

    @caranhaes6496

    Жыл бұрын

    "Irish immigrants in New England" Ironic

  • @julianshepherd2038

    @julianshepherd2038

    Жыл бұрын

    did anyone come from Britain or are they not immigrants ?

  • @EnigmaEnginseer

    @EnigmaEnginseer

    Жыл бұрын

    @@julianshepherd2038 We’ve definitely gotten more

  • @Marrowwakskid

    @Marrowwakskid

    Жыл бұрын

    Fair amount of Italian ancestry as well in New England especially in Rhode Island and in and around Boston.

  • @zachzgod7354

    @zachzgod7354

    Жыл бұрын

    And Jewish in all large cities

  • @zyxwut321
    @zyxwut321 Жыл бұрын

    Basically, it comes down to long, large and consistent waves of immigration over the course of centuries rather then one or two massive waves at particular times in history. The fact that there were so many waves and so many people had German ancestry because of being in this country for so long is really what makes the numbers add up. If you're a white person (or even just have some degree of white ancestry) and you don't know all parts of your background except that your family's been in America for a long time, there's an excellent chance you have at least SOME degree of German ancestry.

  • @ChrisJohannsen

    @ChrisJohannsen

    Жыл бұрын

    I did a DNA test and am 100% north German and Scandinavian despite my family moving to San Francisco in the 1850s.

  • @owenbuterbaugh2242
    @owenbuterbaugh22422 ай бұрын

    Our family came here in 1770's. One was a Hession solder captured at Trenton NJ.. Was a POW . Moved to Bedford Co. and became a big landowner. Our family still lives here and two and counties above us.

  • @philipkircher2848
    @philipkircher2848 Жыл бұрын

    My great great grandfather came because he was the fifth son in his family and would never own property. He was destined to be a hand on his family farm. Leaving was his only option to ever be anything more.

  • @stupidvickfan3744
    @stupidvickfan3744 Жыл бұрын

    My grandpa was half German and his parents died early. It took years for someone to finally pick him up from the orphanage but eventually an uncle finally did. They literally left their grandkid because he was only half German

  • @marvinegreen
    @marvinegreen Жыл бұрын

    My mother's family were "Bodemers", reputedly barge boat builders on the Bavarian part of the Rhine River. Great X3 Grandfather named all his kids on their birth certificates: "Botimer's", who were by then mostly farmers in Michigan.

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    Today, Bavaria is quite far away from the Rhine, as far as it gets actually. But hundreds of years ago, the Bavarians had some small holdings in the West. Maybe you refer to that. I met an Andreas Bodemer some decades ago. He came from Southwest Germany. The name should have to do with Boden (ground), so someone who lives from the fruits of the ground.

  • @Eddi.M.

    @Eddi.M.

    Жыл бұрын

    @@strangerhythm The river Rhine springs in the Swiss mountains!

  • @bluesfanman1
    @bluesfanman1 Жыл бұрын

    My family arrived in Philadelphia on the Winter Galley September 5, 1738. Most of us are still in Pennsylvania.

  • @Orpilorp
    @Orpilorp Жыл бұрын

    Hi! This was a very informative video. Thank you. The German branch of my family tree came to America in the 1700s. There is even a town in Maryland named after my family.

  • @a.f.7246

    @a.f.7246

    2 ай бұрын

    What is it?

  • @Clone683
    @Clone683 Жыл бұрын

    10:00 It should be noted that German language was heavily suppressed during WW1. Which is the main reason you dont really see it spoken in the US today

  • @detroitandclevelandfan5503

    @detroitandclevelandfan5503

    Жыл бұрын

    Makes sense why German was not passed down in my family. My Great great grandfather could speak German, for his parents, my 3 great grandfather was German. We still say our dinner prayer in German though.

  • @markkasten8925

    @markkasten8925

    Жыл бұрын

    My grandfather and father spoke and read German my generation lost that

  • @vigilante619

    @vigilante619

    Жыл бұрын

    The German culture as a whole was suppressed, not just the language. An entire ethnicity's culture was basically wiped out. Americans of German descent were forced to abandon their culture and become 'good Americans.' Street names were changed, German was no longer taught in school, people changed their names from Schmidt to Smith, just to name a few. This is not taught in school. kzread.info/dash/bejne/eItszMF8eKa1fbQ.html

  • @meekos699

    @meekos699

    Жыл бұрын

    @@vigilante619 Luckily many German Americans, especially young ones, are trying to reclaim their culture. Germans are a huge plurality in the midwest. And the language has been reintroduced in schools in Ohio!

  • @kellymcbright5456

    @kellymcbright5456

    11 ай бұрын

    @@detroitandclevelandfan5503 Herr Jesus, komm sei unser Gast und segne, was du uns bescheret hast - like that? ^^

  • @ChrisJohannsen
    @ChrisJohannsen Жыл бұрын

    My German ancestors went straight to San Francisco around the far end of South America in the 1850s. No Panama canal back then. My dad moved to Vancouver in the 60s and I moved to Melbourne Australia myself. Not many Germans here, mostly Brits, Italians and Greeks.

  • @ganjafi59

    @ganjafi59

    Жыл бұрын

    Your surname is Danish/ Norwegian Know anything about that?

  • @ganjafi59

    @ganjafi59

    Жыл бұрын

    @@myhonorwasloyalty yes but not German

  • @ChrisJohannsen

    @ChrisJohannsen

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ganjafi59 we're from the Danish peninsula. Schleswig. Did a DNA test and got lots of Danish/Swedish/Norweigan blood.

  • @holmbjerg

    @holmbjerg

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ganjafi59The person you have responded to; @My honor was loyalty 's username is peculiar, as it very close to 'my honor is called loyalty ', which would have been a direct translation of the SS slogan "Meine Ehre heißt Treue".

  • @dave_sic1365

    @dave_sic1365

    Жыл бұрын

    My mother's uncle emigrated to Australia right after ww2. I was told that in Northern Australia larger groups with German backgrounds live.

  • @barryw.gaugler3442
    @barryw.gaugler3442 Жыл бұрын

    My family came from Germany in 1720 into Pennsylvania around Montgomery County.

  • @keboonplumeria5266
    @keboonplumeria52665 ай бұрын

    I just love the dream and hardwork they make to survive. The thing is, that it took resilient, tough-headed and determination to strive it all

  • @thisturtlehasmelockedupinm3672
    @thisturtlehasmelockedupinm3672 Жыл бұрын

    This is possibly the greatest video on KZread for German Americans like me

  • @LeadLeftLeon
    @LeadLeftLeon Жыл бұрын

    During holidays in ww1 American and German troops would both exit the trenches to play ball together. Many American soldiers would speak German to their German enemies during these celebrations

  • @Jolrog

    @Jolrog

    Жыл бұрын

    The christmas truce did only happen on a large scale in 1914 and in 1918, when US soldiers arrived at the western front, there was no war at christmas anymore.

  • @steamgent4592
    @steamgent4592 Жыл бұрын

    Pa has alot of Bavarians as well. Especially in Berks County. What I havent met are many of Prussian decent in Pa. Prussians are here but not many. Plenty of Geman festivals year round, clubs, and the older end as well as the Mennonite/Amish still speak a low german called Pennsylvania Dutch but its german with some Anglicanizations.

  • @sidilicious11
    @sidilicious11 Жыл бұрын

    As a kid in the early 1960’s we still heard German spoken in stores of my small hometown in Wisconsin.

  • @fredwhisman7866
    @fredwhisman7866 Жыл бұрын

    I am descended from German people who came from Darmstadt in the year 1730. They settled in Wythe Co. Virginia.

  • @firstcitytraveler
    @firstcitytraveler Жыл бұрын

    My 5th Great Grandfather and 6th great Grandfather came to Pennsylvania in 1725 from the Palatinate. They were some of the early Germans invited by William Penn's agents. They were Lutheran and lived in a mostly Catholic area. They came Telford, Pennsylvania area and helped found Little Zion Lutheran Church in Franconia-Indianfield in 1730. After their deaths the family moved down the Great Valley to west side of the Shenandoah Valley. From there the family moved to Ohio, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, and beyond.

  • @thinking7667

    @thinking7667

    Жыл бұрын

    My family was invited by Penn too

  • @espben360
    @espben36011 ай бұрын

    I live in Texas about an hour away from “the hill country” region, where many Germans in 1850’s moved to, and especially Fredericksburg. They very much are everywhere either in person, or in influence.

  • @joebombero1
    @joebombero1 Жыл бұрын

    My fathers family attended German-speaking public schools in Baltimore, Maryland. They only switched to English language curriculum during World War I.

  • @bylot
    @bylot Жыл бұрын

    My first ancestor was German and came to Nova Scotia in 1753 settled the town of lunenburg his name is on a plack dedicated to the settlers whom founded the town I still bare the same last name and still live in Canada to this day.

  • @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    Жыл бұрын

    Lots of Germans went to Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Alberta too

  • @axisboss1654

    @axisboss1654

    Жыл бұрын

    @@carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222 Also to British Columbia

  • @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    @carymnuhgibrilsamadalnasud1222

    Жыл бұрын

    @@axisboss1654 ye

  • @canecarder9800

    @canecarder9800

    Жыл бұрын

    Canada is actually a very German place. Western Canada is a full of German ancestry

  • @axisboss1654

    @axisboss1654

    Жыл бұрын

    @@canecarder9800 Yeah in many areas in the west it is the largest ancestry, similar to the US. Like several millions of Canadians have mostly or partly German descent, myself included. There is some on the east like Berlin, Ontario too.

  • @jameslandolt5835
    @jameslandolt5835 Жыл бұрын

    One of the biggest contributions of Germans was in the American Civil War. During the late 1840s, the Germans had what amounted to a Civil War to decide whether they would have a democratic government or a monarchy. The folks who wanted a more democratic form of government lost (they tended to be among the more educated) and had to get out of Dodge. Because most settled in the north and were anti-slavery they were very pro-union. When the American Civil War suddenly broke out, and the North had to very quickly raise a large army, because of their prior German military experience, these folks were good to go. A believe a very large portion of the union officers were German immigrants. I have always believed, that if it was not for the instant help of these folks to help the Union get up to speed quickly, the South may have been able to win, and in a very short time.

  • @jameslandolt5835

    @jameslandolt5835

    Жыл бұрын

    @@urlauburlaub2222 Thanks for responding - the situation in 1848 was complicated and a lot was going on :en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_revolutions_of_1848%E2%80%931849 . The bottom line was that a lot of Germans with military experience came to the US and most settled in the Northern states. Those folks deserve a lot of credit for what they contributed towards the Union winning the Civil War.

  • @buggypssmith1785
    @buggypssmith178511 ай бұрын

    I’m German on my dads side. Both of my great grandmothers who were white on my dads side were born and raised in Germany and they both came to the USA and married black men and had kids with them. I’m mixed on both sides of my family. I’m proud of my German heritage.🇩🇪

  • @Joshr9501

    @Joshr9501

    11 ай бұрын

    amerimutt loser

  • @jackrowe5571
    @jackrowe5571 Жыл бұрын

    Penn was also proprietor of New Jersey for a while. My Rau( anglicized to Rowe) came to NJ in the mid 1600s. Part of the family moved to North Carolina, but remained in the German areas of the center of that state.

  • @OwenConcorde
    @OwenConcorde Жыл бұрын

    I'm proud to be partial German (ancestry from Germany) and you did a very good job of making this video! So what about the Austrians and Swiss Germans? These other groups of people just added more Germans to America and it's not just the Volga German minority from Russia.

  • @nein236

    @nein236

    Жыл бұрын

    As a patriotic german living in Munich, you probably have more pride to be somewhat german than most of the german people i know. Quite sad.

  • @wasp1264

    @wasp1264

    Жыл бұрын

    @@nein236 f u

  • @aldosigmann419

    @aldosigmann419

    Жыл бұрын

    @@wasp1264 Don’t feel bad if you don’t get it son - it usually eludes the bottom 10th percentile.

  • @ericp0012

    @ericp0012

    Жыл бұрын

    It’s interesting that many Americans of German heritage see themselves as German-American or simply as German. But German people in Germany(EU) see Turkish people with German passports as more German than Americans of German ancestry.

  • @nein236

    @nein236

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ericp0012 Nope. We dont. Turks with german passports will never be german. Most of the people here dont consider them german, the germans and turks alike. Our government portrays them as german. In Berlin an Armenian went nuts with his car and drove into people on the sidewalk. The media portrayed him as quote "German-Armenian", and the guy couldnt even speak german. He just had the passport because our trash goverment hands them out just like that. In conclusion, we dont consider the turks here as germans, we even joke about this topic. Most of us germans dont like the turks. And americans, well americans are americans, no matter their ancestry. But still, an american with german heritage will always be more of a brother to me than the turks, albanians, yugos, bulgarians...and so on, that live here in tens of millions.

  • @thetankhunter7925
    @thetankhunter7925 Жыл бұрын

    Can we get Skanderbeg part two? We’ve been waiting for a long time!

  • @Tmb1112
    @Tmb1112 Жыл бұрын

    German, Irish, English, Norwegian here. My Mom’s side identified most with German so I’d count myself in that 43 million. Though they wound up becoming Episcopals, so the English on that side must’ve won out at some point. Even won out over my Irish Catholic dad, as I’m raised Episcopal myself. Going to be cool to see what the ethnicity of my kids winds up being, all depending on the background of some future girlfriend.

  • @Nathan-ry3yu

    @Nathan-ry3yu

    Жыл бұрын

    Mostly the English origins originally came from Saxony germany anyway. So English are already partly german. Except the normans when they took England in the battle of Hastings 1066 made British mixed of Scandinavian and Saxons. So you're not really mixed in the first place. Except for the Irish bloodline that originally came from French Celtic according to historians What a lot of people don't know is that Britian was virtually the earliest first new world. It was made up of French German and Scandinavian descendants. The Anglo Saxons was German

  • @gocool_2.0
    @gocool_2.0 Жыл бұрын

    That's why Dwight Schrute was in Pennsylvania.

  • @NapoleonBonaparte96
    @NapoleonBonaparte96 Жыл бұрын

    This is a great topic. You should make more videos about other ethnic group in the US. For example Latin Americans and how they influenced and contributed to what is America today.

  • @AngelicoCiudad

    @AngelicoCiudad

    Жыл бұрын

    Leetino ethn. made violent cities like San Bernardino, albuquerque, Stockton, Fresno, Compton, Las Vegas, etc... to live in. They just made USA to a 3rd world country more then it already is (most violent developed country and lacking living qualities).

  • @Etendard1708

    @Etendard1708

    Жыл бұрын

    Oh yeah. Especially the southern States. The cowboy culture and "wild west" standoffs are also of hispanic roots.

  • @eloymorales1140

    @eloymorales1140

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Etendard1708 u mean mex

  • @Etendard1708

    @Etendard1708

    Жыл бұрын

    @@eloymorales1140 But "the country person who rides horse and experienced in traditional farming" also exists in Argentina, called Gaucho.. so it's Hispanic / Spanish culture

  • @user-zx8de8op9l
    @user-zx8de8op9l2 ай бұрын

    Well done I am a 1/4 German, my family settled in Wisconsin. They came in the late 1800's.

  • @kirkbolt7055
    @kirkbolt7055 Жыл бұрын

    I know my grandmother’s parents would not let the kids speak German, even though they had come from Germany to Michigan, because they felt that America was their country now and they needed to speak English to be fully American and fit into their new country.

  • @kellymcbright5456

    @kellymcbright5456

    11 ай бұрын

    that's typical German. I know, i teach kids of german immigrants in Sweden. It is the same here, they cannot speak their parents' language after just one generation ;-)

  • @deedadee2
    @deedadee2 Жыл бұрын

    My family came here from Germany in 1850 to evade conscription in the midst of the revolutions of that time. Can't imagine having to make the decision my ancestors did to leave everything behind

  • @RoCK3rAD

    @RoCK3rAD

    Жыл бұрын

    Did they end up fighting in the civil war? Imagine fleeing your homeland to avoid military service just have to fight in America. I know many irish had to.

  • @deedadee2

    @deedadee2

    Жыл бұрын

    @@RoCK3rAD Nope, though after the war they carpetbagged from Cincinnati down to Mississippi, which was an interesting turn of events to read about