Germany is actually Americans third or fourth favorite foreign country
this is from 2011 and sometimes Germany is 3rd or 4th on poll shows it being 5th, but it still always high up
not to mention German is the highest ancestry in the US at 17% of the whole population
even during both World Wars, it was the majority and Dwight D. Eisenhower was of German descent
and FDR knew some German
and the US used to have a holiday called "German Day" to celebrate German-American heritage and the founding of Germantown but it was canceled during Great War and didn't get reinstated until the 1980s under Ronald Regan. and renamed German-American Day
fun fact Germans were the first colonists to protest slavery in the American colonies
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we also have Baron von Steuben who help whip the continental army into shape and wrote the Blue Book which many of its rules are still being used today
also during WWII near the end German Wehrmacht soldiers and American soldiers fought the Waffen SS to protect a medieval castle in Austria to save French prisoners, they won
also some Americans do speak German, though this is a small minority and it is taught in school
9 states are listed as a German being spoken at home
the random fact did you know the Brooklyn Bridge was designed and built by a German immigrant? John A Roebling
also, Prussia was 10th country to recognized the US as an independent nation and Hamburg was the 11th
oh and the capital of North Dakota is, waits for it, Bismark and yes it was named after Otto Von Bismark the only state to name its capital after a foreign leader
German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 first-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army,
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Germany is actually Americans third or fourth favorite foreign country
this is from 2011 and sometimes Germany is 3rd or 4th on poll shows it being 5th, but it still always high up
not to mention German is the highest ancestry in the US at 17% of the whole population
even during both World Wars, it was the majority and Dwight D. Eisenhower was of German descent
and FDR knew some German
and the US used to have a holiday called "German Day" to celebrate German-American heritage and the founding of Germantown but it was canceled during Great War and didn't get reinstated until the 1980s under Ronald Regan. and renamed German-American Day
fun fact Germans were the first colonists to protest slavery in the American colonies
and
we also have Baron von Steuben who help whip the continental army into shape and wrote the Blue Book which many of its rules are still being used today
also there is German-American Friendship garden
also during WWII near the end German Wehrmacht soldiers and American soldiers fought the Waffen SS to protect a medieval castle in Austria to save French prisoners, they won
Sabaton wrote a cool song about it and everything The Last Battle Sabaton
also some Americans do speak German, though this is a small minority and it is taught in school
9 states are listed as a German being spoken at home
the random fact did you know the Brooklyn Bridge was designed and built by a German immigrant? John A Roebling
also, Prussia was 10th country to recognized the US as an independent nation and Hamburg was the 11th
oh and the capital of North Dakota is, waits for it, Bismark and yes it was named after Otto Von Bismark the only state to name its capital after a foreign leader
German-Americans were the largest ethnic contingent to fight for the Union in the American Civil War. More than 200,000 native-born Germans, along with another 250,000 first-generation German-Americans, served in the Union Army,
German American ins the American Civil War