I enjoyed reading this article, partly because I have German ancestry and because I think that it contains some great information about the history of German Americans. I would like to see something about the German internment camps or the German POW camps in America during WWI and WWII. Many...
However, this affection for German Americans dramatically ended at America’s declaration of war on Germany during WWI. Germany’s unrestricted submarine warfare against American civilian ships infamously let the public hold grudge against German Americans. Abruptly, German curricula were revoked, German ...
(During WWI and after) The First-Holocaust-Don-Heddesheimer-2003-pdf The Hoax of the 20th Century We Germans were the best! Therefore: Germany Must Perish-Jew Kaufman Deutschland Muss Untergehen-Jude Kaufman Filled with outright lies and many distortions: ...
Interestingly, Bubi , his parents and other Germans were interned by the Americans at Bilibid, the Manila City Jail, for several months after the liberation. They were finally released in September, more than a month after the war was over. Shown below is Bubi, his father, Edgar Sr. and ...
U-boats attacked not only food and oil supplies bound for the British Isles, but passenger ships as well. On May 7, 1915,U-20torpedoed the linerLusitaniaoff the coast of Ireland and killed nearly 1,200 passengers, including 128 Americans. Alarmed at the prospect of an American entry into...
During WWI, Germany did not produce many propaganda leaflets and those that were produced were disseminated very late in the war. This rare 1918 single-sided WWI leaflet is addressed to American “Coloured” soldiers and promises them a nice heated room and plenty of food in the warm south of...
How many German casualties were there on the Eastern Front in WWI? How many soldiers were in the German army during WWII? How many German soldiers fought in the Battle of Verdun? What percentage of soldiers died in WWI? How many US soldiers served in WWI? How many casualties were there ...
Their unit was supposed do a glider operation for Sicily from North Africa in 1942 but apparently there weren’t enough gliders for both the Americans and British. They also liberated at least one concentration camp. I was lucky enough to record his stories before he passed away and his ...
During WWI the Western Front referred to the theatre of war where the German, French and British armies (and later the Americans), fought the trench warfare that characterized that conflict. Despite the immense expenditure of men and material, the frontline in the west never moved more than a...
During WWI, von Stephanitz used his influence to convince the German military that his new breed ofworking dogcould be useful. The first GSD became aRed Cross dog, and soon took on other roles such asguard, messenger, and supply carrier. ...