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Kansas is Heavily populated with Germans. Mostly Volga Germans from Russia in about 1870. Linguisticly they may be Low German, Ukranian, Mennonite or Prussian. I think they may be part of of Germans who migrated to Russia during Catherine II the Great's reign.
I often wonder what happened to those German-Americans who enlisted or were recruited for WW2. I mean, some were just sons or grandsons to Germans, didn't they feel any remorse after fighting their distant cousins? And 3 of the top US military chiefs (Nimitz, Spatz and Eisenhower himself) were of german descent.
I often wonder what happened to those German-Americans who enlisted or were recruited for WW2. I mean, some were just sons or grandsons to Germans, didn't they feel any remorse after fighting their distant cousins? And 3 of the top US military chiefs (Nimitz, Spatz and Eisenhower himself) were of german descent.
My dad sure didnt! He was Navy, and a second generation German.
For the foundational German immigration to colonial and early independence America, these are the source regions. The "Pfalz" on the map is translated as Palatinate in English, which is where the Palatines came from. But one can see the Rhineland in general was a source region.http://www.progenealogists.com/images/1700GerEm.jpg
Some of my ancestors were Palatine Germans who went to England and from there to the American English colonies. Mine ended up in the lower Hudson Valley (Dutchess and Columbia counties) in 1710 as indentured workers in a project that crumped in less than a year.
In a couple of generations one family had split up and moved to Yates Co., NY.; Defiance Co., OH; and to Prince Edward Co., Ont. Canada.
A good genealogical source book for those interested in this particular segment of the Palatine migration to the US is
The Palatine Families of New York (2 vol.), Henry Z. Jones, Jr., Picton Press, Rockland ME.
I often wonder what happened to those German-Americans who enlisted or were recruited for WW2. I mean, some were just sons or grandsons to Germans, didn't they feel any remorse after fighting their distant cousins? And 3 of the top US military chiefs (Nimitz, Spatz and Eisenhower himself) were of german descent.
In those days, people immigrated to the US to become Americans. They left their heritage behind and didn't look back and were proud to be American. Well, I can't speak for everyone but that is the attitude my great grandfather had and I get the impression that was the case for most people.
I'm glad they did cause I woudn't like the idea to see the German language as the international and most popular one. English is easier and sounds more beautiful so it deserves to be a #1 language.
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