German

Examples of German in the following topics:

• German Immigration

  • Between 1820 and World War I, many German political refugees came to America following a series of German revolutions.
  • The largest flow of German immigration to America occurred between 1820 and World War I, during which time nearly six million Germans immigrated to the United States.
  • Milwaukee was once known as "the German Athens," and radical Germans trained in politics in the old country dominated the city's Socialists.
  • Although only one in four Germans fought in all-German regiments, they created the public image of the German soldier.
  • Many Germans in late 19th century cities were socialists, and Germans played a significant role in the labor union movement.

• German Migration

  • Between 1742 and 1753, roughly 1,000 Germans settled in Broad Bay, Massachusetts (now Waldoboro, Maine).
  • By 1775, Germans constituted about one-third of the population of the state.
  • German farmers were renowned for their highly productive animal husbandry and agricultural practices.
  • German immigrant John Jacob Astor was the first millionaire in the United States
  • Describe the political and cultural commitments of the German presence in the Pennsylvania colony

• The Anti-German Crusade

  • Anti-German hysteria in the U.S. during World War I led to restrictions on speaking German and internment.
  • During World War I, many German-Americans were broadly accused of being sympathetic to the German Empire without regard to their individual loyalties.
  • Anti-German fervor during World War I resulted in the renaming of food that was of German origin simply sounded German.
  • Allegations included spying for Germany or endorsing the German war effort.
  • Illustrate how anti-German fervor played out in the forced registration, internment, and oppression of German-Americans.

• War Debts and Reparations

  • The occupation, which led to the death of some German civilians, provoked pro-German sentiments within the international community.
  • By mid-July, all German banks had closed.
  • In turn, they recommended that war debts be tied into German reparation payments, to which the Germans objected.
  • Germans fervently opposed the occupation.
  • German Federal Archive, 1923.

• Blitzkrieg

  • Blitzkrieg refers to German tactical and operational strategies in the first half of the second World War.
  • German military official Heinz Guderian was probably the first to fully develop and advocate the principles associated with blitzkrieg.
  • Harris have written that German operations during it were consistent with traditional methods.
  • The Germans conquered large areas of the Soviet Union but their failure to destroy the Red Army before the winter of 1941 was a strategic failure that made German tactical superiority and territorial gains irrelevant.
  • Many of the German participants who wrote about the operation after the war make no mention of blitzkrieg in their accounts. 

• Crisis in Berlin

  • The Berlin Crisis, which concerned the occupational status of the German capital city, Berlin, resulted in the erection of the Berlin Wall.
  • Accordingly, Berlin became the main route by which East Germans left for the West.
  • The 3.5 million East Germans that had left by 1961 totaled approximately 20% of the entire East German population.
  • During the spring and early summer, the East German regime procured and stockpiled building materials for the erection of the Berlin Wall.
  • Although this extensive activity was widely known, few outside the small circle of Soviet and East German planners believed that East Germany would be sealed off.

• The European Theater

  • The British rejected several covert German attempts to negotiate a peace.
  • By early February 1943, the German Army had taken tremendous losses.
  • German special forces then rescued Mussolini, who then soon established a new client state in German occupied Italy named the Italian Social Republic, causing an Italian civil war.
  • However, the largest of these in Warsaw where German soldiers massacred 200,000 civilians and a national uprising in Slovakia did not receive Soviet support and were subsequently suppressed by the Germans.
  • German forces surrendered in Italy on April 29.

• The Allied Push

  • German operations in the Atlantic also suffered.
  • By May 1943, sizeable German submarine losses forced a temporary halt of the German Atlantic naval campaign.
  • These landings led to the defeat of the German Army units in France.
  • In Italy, the Western Allies remained stalemated at the German defensive line.
  • German forces surrendered in Italy on April 29.

• The Battle of the Atlantic

  • The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the Kriegsmarine (German Navy) and aircraft of the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) against the Royal Canadian Navy, Royal Navy, the United States Navy, and Allied merchant shipping.
  • The defeat of the U-boat threat was a pre-requisite for pushing back the Germans.
  • Its effectiveness contributed to German successes also during the Battle of the Atlantic.
  • The Germans failed to stop the flow of strategic supplies to Britain.
  • The Battle of the Atlantic pitted U-boats and other warships of the German Navy, along with aircrafts of the German Air Force, against Allied merchant convoys.

• Territory and Reparations

  • German colonies were divided between Belgium, Great Britain and certain British Dominions, France, and Japan.
  • In Africa, Britain and France divided German Kamerun (Cameroons) and Togoland.
  • Belgium and the UK gained territory in German East Africa, and Portugal received a sliver of German East Africa.
  • German South West Africa was mandated to the Union of South Africa.
  • German Samoa was assigned to New Zealand; German New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, and Nauru were assigned to Australia.