The Untold History of German America (Deutschamerikaner)
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Today we're going to discuss the forgotten history of German America, and how the Germans became the largest group in the United States of America, dominating huge chunks of one of the most influential countries on Earth?
Be sure to let me know your thoughts on German Americans and their history. Happy Oktoberfest, and thanks for watching!
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Imagine how many relativies killed each other during war without knowing they are family of the same heritage.
In Brazil so many italian descendents were fight against Italy in WW2
Nazism was deep state to destroy German America
No more brother wars!!!!
So sad 😥
Yeah I live in Utah and I went to the police station for fingerprints for work and on the wall they had the fingerprints of a serial killer that was German-American with a harsh German mother but he sympathized with the nazi movement so what he target mix race couples mostly lucky they caught him But yeah it’s quit interesting to think about anyway that what this made me think about
“Americans make very poor Germans, but Germans make very good Americans...perhaps the best” -Henry Miller
But not so good at spelling...
you have 100% right about this detail George Washington come from great Britain before American revolution🇺🇸🇬🇧
@@ludvigkhan1458 as did the vast majority of patriots
Germans usher in development and progress wherever they go
@@ludvigkhan1458 Anglo Saxon he was....they come from where? Northern Germany
Toller Beitrag! Ich bin hier geboren, also in den USA. Mein Urgrossvater kam schon 1863 aus Arzberg im Fichtelgebirge hier an. Ich bin also in der 4. Generation und pfege hier immer noch einen deutschen Lebensstil. Alles Gute, Leutchen!
Schön zu hören. Mein kompletter familiärer Stammbaum stammt ebenfalls aus Deutschland, und das auch seit Langem!!
Schön zu sehen . Lebe und deutschland und habe alles verstanden was du gesagt hast
schöne Grüße aus Deutschland leude 🇩🇪 🇺🇸
Was genau ist ein deutscher Lebensstil? Kannst du das bitte erklären? Details, danke.
@@maxkopfraumpoops Currywurst in der Mittagspause, dann 18:30 Sportschau gucken.
As a German, all the positive comments make me feel good. Gettings from Bavaria 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸
Grüße aus Amerika. Meine Familie kommt aus Rhineland-Pfalz!🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇸🇩🇪
@@funnygramcompilation903 nice dass ihr noch deutsch spricht 👍🇩🇪🇺🇸
I’m an American (Hispanic with French & Spanish ancestry), but I’m fascinated by Bavaria. And I’ve been learning some languages as of recent and one of them is German. I really love learning about other cultures & places & languages.
Servus! Wie geht es dir?
@@MienemLeben gut dir?
The capital of North Dakota is Bismarck. That's about as German as it gets. The culture is still very strong here.
You know what Bismarck said about the germans? "They re the only xenophile people in the world he knows". Dotn wonder when new germans will enter your country as refugees in the future. Guess this will come.
Bismark was named by the Northern Pacific Railroad to try to get him to invest and to attract Germans.
Greetings to North Dakota from Germany.
@@DrSchredder Blödsinn! We enter the United States for holidays and shopping.
For what i know,Jacobs is a Dutch/Belgium name. A coffee brander over here,is Jacobs.
Capital of Kentucky is Frankfurt, North Dakota Capital is Bismarck
Okay thats pretty cool :D
@marios gianopoulos soon
The spelling is Frankfort, and if you Wikipedia this, it turns out not to be German-related. Bismarck definitely is!
wow that f*cking cool and honouring. thanks for the enlightment.
@@gregoryh3270 It's supposed to be not German related? I don't believe it a second. In the dialect of the city of Frankfurt (on the Main) they call their own city Frankfort and themselves Frankforter. On google maps I've a list of more than hundred places in the USA, Canada, Mexico and Brazil where cities and villages have German names.
Thank you German Americans for beer, hamburgers, hotdogs, Christmas trees, and kindergarten!
Ketchup and Trump*
Chirstmas trees are roman, from the holiday of saturnalia.
Thx. Even I as a german say that, the Hamburgers and Hotdogs came back to Germany, and everybody likes them :-)
And thanks for that Xmas song silent night and snow white
German Americans invented everything else too, like literally every invention is by German Americans
This is an amazing video on German ancestry in America! I am (What I consider as) Dutch/German-American. My moms side was 100% Dutch, her parents came to America in the 1950s for 'The American Dream' after surviving WWII. My family comes from the German area of central Texas from my dads side. My Grandfather was 100% Deutsch, as well as his family members, but my Grandmother was an entire mix. I am told I have German relatives out there that I do not know about. Apparently my Great Grandparents on my Dads side could speak Deutsch fluently, but my Grandfather and Dad never picked it up. My family also dropped speaking Deutsch after WWII. My German Grandfather spoke of a prince that came from a German Kingdom who had the last name of Friesenhahn, whom settled in Texas before it was a state, along with other Friesenhahn's. That is the reason why my last name on my Dads side was never 'Americanized'. If you happen to go to Houston Texas area, you will hopefully see lots of Friesenhahn's. My family's history with Religion is a bit different than to most German-Americans. As you where saying, they had a few different faiths, notably; Protestant. Considering my German ancestry, the Germans in Texas (Im told) where primarily Catholic Christians compared to around the country. Im currently learning Deutsch and am proud about my Heritage despite what they still say. I have to say, the oppression of German Americans after and during the World Wars needs to be known about, and not shut up by the main stream media. Danke fur ein wunderschones video! Haben ein guten tag, und Gott segne! :D
wunderschönes Video. USA misses the ö, the ä, the ü
@@erwinklawuttke5572 Sorry, we speak just fine without those extra letters. English is hard enough to spell correctly with out extra letters.
Ein wunderschöner Beitrag! Freundliche Grüsse aus Brasilien!
aahh you should learn Dutch instead!! since you are 50% Dutch and just 25% German as I understand it
Since your last name is Friesenhahn, your ancestors might come from the very north of Germany. Near to the Dutch and Danish Border! The people from this area are called "Friesen" and Hahn means rooster btw
The Pennsylvania Dutch are called Dutch because the English speaking people misinterpeted "Deutsch"
JR G it's just weird that dutch is called dutch and not netherlandish or something
Holy Roman Empire 'dutch is a northern german dialect' 😂 don't say this to dutch people if you don't want dutch people to hate you
Actually they called them ''dutch'', because at that time, there was no united nation of germany. They called em ''dutch'', because they we're all taking the ferry from amsterdam or rotterdam, but most of pennsylvanian dutch people are as a matter of fact from the rheinland pfalz, saarland, hessen and franconian region :)
@Holy Roman Empire In a way yeah, we were one during the Holy Roman Empire, then we separated in 1648, although at the time there was no common language as every village had its own dialect. It wasn't until the reformation when Bibles were printed in the common tongue that national languages came around. Modern Dutch is based on the accent from Holland, the richest province. Oh, and we dropped the cases! You should try it too neighbor!
@Holy Roman Empire according to the British we (the Dutch) are civilized Germans......
The flag you designed looks amazing.
Beautiful too!♡
Leave Blank he is just saying he loves the flag you don’t need to be a bitch about it
@@thegermanaustrianreich8273"The German Austrian Reich" what's that supposed to mean if you don't mind me asking?
Hannah G why do you wanna know so bad if I may asked
@@thegermanaustrianreich8273 I'm German, so I'm interested.
Though it is fast disappearing, you can still hear the local dialect of German spoken in Texas. It is its own dialect. Completely separate and distinct from any spoken in Europe today. You have to go to places like new Braunfels and Fredericksburg to hear it. But, you still find it from time to time.
As a Deutsch-Americaner who has just recently started discovering my heritage, I really appreciate people like yourself who help spread the word. It's sad that we've lost our national identity, but I'm glad that it wasn't forgotten.
That's a good stance. Pride is silent and attractive. It leaves all the noise and blatancy to the vain ones.
In Germany we are slowly losing our identity too, you are not alone brothers
Even Hamburgers are german
God is a Serb
*Greetings from Hamburg ;)*
I've always wanted to have the time to visit Hamburg and taste the hamburgers in your fair city.@@Christof_Classen
... and franks!
Sounds like a Jewish name, tho
My Family is from Germany...This makes me proud ♡
As u should be my Lady!
@@793Force Gluckliches Neu Jahr from a loud and proud Germanophile!!!
Greetings Out Germany 🇩🇪🇩🇪.
If German Americans want to know where their ancestors came from, watch this video. kzhead.info/sun/m6pxYb1oa2eDoYU/bejne.html Greets from Germany
Rhaina Inge stfu GO BACK TO GERMANY
English are Anglo-saxon Anglo-Saxons come Germany German,English, Dutch,Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Austrian, icelandic, Swiss =Germanic Peoples
Thats why they all blended together relatively easily in the New World. All the deacendants of the Goths
@wong Kuto the north?
Belgique,luxemburg, Austria,Alsace. Loraine in France
Amazouz Djamel We all know that Alsace Lorraine is German in our hearts
I try tell people that and they just don't understand
Ein berührender Beitrag, der den Einfluss der Werte deutscher Einwanderer in den USA deutlich macht.
Isn't ironic that in WW2 the supreme commander of the Allied Forces in Europe and head of the invasion of Germany was Eisenhower, a Pennsylvania Dutch?
Brothers wars
Pennsylvania German. "Eisenhower" is the Anglicization of "Eisenhauer" familly name coming from Saarland Germany. It comes from "Esels ohren" in German. It means "Donkey Ears". So the West German armies were defeated by an American general of German descent.
Germans have been fighting Germans for centuries.
And something like 43 us presidents are british americans
@GasGodLuigi immigration has been the US's greatest power. We are a nation of immigrants who came here with nothing and worked for everything. Now your complaining about people coming here with nothing. You ignorant ass.
Fun fact: German-Americans were first to officially oppose slavery
yes that's really true. has to do with the fact that most immigrants from Germany were themselves slaves to their princes and nobility.
Would make sense. Bismarck also declared slavery illegal in the colonies of the european states at the "Kongo Konforenz" in 1884.
Пысық Times sane with the nords
D K Thats sounds more like it.
Pretty sure the slaves did first my guy and they were over 90% American born.
Danke für den schönen Beitrag, ich bin sehr stolz auf meine Verwandten und die vielen deutschstämmigen in den USA! Grüße aus Berlin!!!
Well, many English are of German decent . In fact, if you are English and can trace your roots back to the 10th century; you almost certainly are in fact German.
how?
@u.s old glory Most of Europe has germanic routes, doesn't make them the same as Germans, ethnic groups split up.
@@vulgrim909 Do you know what the split is? Like what's the difference between German roots and being ethnically German.
@@char08fal As i understand it, when groups split from each other they start to develop culturally different and ethnically different over time, the more time they are away from each other, the less connected they are, if you want to learn specifically you could always just research it, but like swedes, people from denmark and germany all share relation with each other but none ethnically identify as the same, they all hate each other. So its weird trying to group anyone who shares germanic routes as German.
@@vulgrim909 Ohhh gotcha. That's funny because Ancestry lumps them all as "Germanic Europe" but some other sites like MyHeritage and FTDNA separate them out more.
I have German ancestry on my mother’s side, while my dad is from Africa. A few of my relatives have told me stories of German society in America. I was told of the discrimination that they faced during the First World War. My great grandmother, her father was a minister of a German church in Ogden, Utah. He would go and visit inmates who were incarcerated during the war on being falsely accused of spying because they spoke German in public. When he visited the prison, a woman asked him to give a loved one a letter, which he agreed to do. The letter was written in German and the guards accused him of sending a hidden message. He was found locked up in the prison for a few weeks without the family knowing what happened to him. While my great grandmother was an adult and had a teaching career, her father decided to move to Chicago after the incident. I probably didn’t explain it so well but I wanted to share part of my German family’s history.
Thank you interesting people's paths
My family “Americanized” their surname so they wouldn’t be suspected as German spies
English people got shit on during the war of independence (loyalists) Irish, Italians, Polish and other catholic immigrants got shit on because of religion Germans and Japanese got shit on for their nationalities. African Americans got shit on because of their skin tone The history of America is basically different major ethnic groups dunking each other
If u don’t like it…go back to Germany…they were treated like shit during WW1 because they were literally supporting the nazis..stop the cap…they gave y’all all that public land via homestead act anyway…so u got something for nothing…America gained nothing with ur arrival bud…get off ur high horse
Utah is Englishmen State
Germans brought beer brewing technology to America....you gotta love them....prost...
there are also many old German families in Kentucky and the Virginians they built stills and made what would eventual become today's Kentucky whiskey
beer comes from ancien sumeria
Yeah, but what you have here one cannot call beer ;) Just joking. You’re welcome!
Unfortunately Pearl beer was one of them.
Don't forget the rocket science.
Thank you!! PA Dutch, (12 Generation German in the US). Born in Williamsport, PA. but Family from Northumberland, Berks and Bucks County! Long live the German’s!
I’m a second generation German-American on my father’s side. I’m proud of my heritage and loved the stories my father, aunts and uncles would tell of growing up in Germantown, Pa. There was much discussion of my grandfather’s hatred of Hitler and not allowing German to be spoken in his home. All my uncles fought in WWll, one helped liberate Auschwitz. There are several German-American Societies in the Philadelphia area, BTW. Thank you for an informative video.
That's interesting, but wasn't Auschwitz Liberated by the Soviets? I'm not saying your lying but maybe it was another Concentration Camp.
I’m a 4th generation German-American and my great great grandfather fought for america for both world wars, and interesting fact, he was a guard for the Austrian emperor
How nice of him to liberate the German build, German settled cities in the east of well the Germans. Your ancestors were war criminals.
@@abeedhal6519 I had no control over what my ancestors thought. My grandfather and grandmother came to the USA between 1903-06. Calling my ancestors war criminals is as bad as blaming the current generation for slavery. Your comment is rude and hateful.
@@miask your grandpa is down bad for hating the fuhrer
Much of American traditions are based on German traditions as well as others from UK, Ireland and Netherlands. My family is swiss/german.
Actually there are more Americans of English ancesty than German. Many of the English immigrants identify as "Americans", since they've been in the US for hundreds of years.
All this fus started in 1980 Census adopting multiply ancestry .Germans, italians doubled and British diminished .There are 3 more Times in number British + lrish americans than germans .Comparing their contribuitions in USA Life (except in economic field ) is rediculious .40 Presidents Vs 3 .English founded Usa ,irish and scotish made It great , germans pushed the economiy higher .
@@1158supersiri I hear the South is mostly British descent, the Notheast is Irish descent save for Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine which are more English, and Pennsylvania and the Midwest are more German descent, with Minnesota also having lot of Scandinavian.
There is no so called american traditions
German american 49 million English american 24 million
There was a time German was one of the most widely spoken languages in the USA
Anabaptists keep High German and Americas German dialect(Pennsylvania Dutch) alive. 3.5 million speakers. Then there are foreign born Germans here and their kids.
There was a time where all scientist and students had to learn German, because of the greatest biologists and chemists in the world like Humboldt ...
After the Revolution Congress actually took a vote on what the official language of the United States would be German or English
Nowadays, the English language in the USA is repressed by Spanish.
My ancestors were among that group
I would like to take a moment to thank you for all the great videos you make i really enjoy them and they are very well made.
My family identified as Germanic in the 2010 census and we occasionally speak German, but mostly in the household.
Wo wohnt ihr ? Immer wenn ich in den USA war gab es Leute, die irgendwie mit den Deutschen eine Beziehung hatten, aber niemand sprach wirklich Deutsch...
Germanic could mean a lot of things...
Germanic is a broader term than just "German" a.k.a. Deutsch.
Germanic includes Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, England, East-France and Luxembourg. But your family-name looks German indeed, so you probably mean German. ;)
@@Casskario da ist niemand das du mit deutsch sprechen can. Es isst alles Weck getötet, ich war im einer deutsche/amerikanische Schule und das war einzige Platz das du deutsch hören können.
I think it's fair to say a lot of Americans of German ancestry have totally forgot and don't acknowledge their backgrounds
Creepy Closet it wasn't PC after the great war
oh no your very wrong,a lot of Americans acknowledge their backrounds (and they wont stop mentioning it...)
They acknowledge it now, but not during the two world wars
Lol what Its the opposite
Creepy Closet because we are Americans already.
well anglo saxon are from germany.. so that makes english also germanic
same france from Franks germanic tribe..even Katharine the Great of Russia was a German lols
@@user-dl1xz3mj3i, • Not really: the French are Celts (+Romans and Germanics). • So many russian monarchs were Germans...
@@adamthetired9319 French are germanic franks and yes catherine the Great was German but as u know Russia have mongols too .
@@user-dl1xz3mj3i, the Eastern part of France was/is Germanic, and even with that the Franks didn't replace the native population. They were the rulers, though. I am not sure if I am right on that, but Wikipedia says, - I know it is not the best source, but still: "Historically the heritage of the French people is mostly of Celtic and Roman origin, descending from the ancient and medieval populations of Gauls, Ligures, Latins, Iberians, and to a lesser extent, Germanic people such as Franks, Alamansand Norsemen."
@@adamthetired9319 yes frank gauls ..not Roman Empire but HRE!
I am so grateful for finding your work; amazed at the depth of knowledge and cautionary approach; pleased that the German nation gets recognition it deserves, and overwhelmed by all I learned! Heartfelt greetings from an Old European.
I am from Alberta and it is great that the video mention us in the prairie provinces and it’s strong German heritage in Canada thank you for that
i am of Irish,English, Cornish and German descent. I am proud of all of them and love the German language.Vielen dank fur dieses video!
So your mostly of British Isles origin
You are Celtic/Germanic
Wisconsin! I'm 75% German, 12.5% Swedish, and 12.5% Danish.
Jäger =100% German
Widukind and in dutch it is “jager” pretty similar
Ik kan ook een beetje Nederlands spreken ;) Im 25% Schlesisch; 25% Siebenbürgisch; 25% Hesse; 25% Friese =100% Deutsch
PrussianJæger is your profile pic the flag of fascist Estonia?
GOOD BOY!!! ;-)
Vielen Dank Mason, ein sehr gutes Video. Best regards from Germany
Glad you put this video together. I lived 20 years in Germany and always welcome such video
"Rhineland" Northern Wisconsin: "You called?"
There are many Americans of German descent in Wisconsin. I have a good friend who lives in Wisconsin, and she is of German-Irish descent.
Milwaukee, WI was once known as "Die deutsche Athen"
We were once called the traitor state during WW1.
@@matthewmueller2506 Also called the "Munich of the Mid-West" due to all the artists that came here, from Bavaria, to paint those huge murals used for public displays.
The governor of Wisconsin, before the start of the Civil War, actually had a PLAN to secede from the Union BECAUSE of the Federal Government's support of Slavery.
My father's ancestors came from the German-Dutch border and Prussia. Since my Mother's Italian heritage includes Lombards, some German comes from there, also.
@Philip Voerding effectively the name Lombardia (northern italian region) derives from Longobardi, a german tribe who invaded Italy in the 6th century AD, after the downfall of western roman empire.
Most of the German emigrants to the USA came from the Palatinate and the Duchy of Nassau. (Today Rhineland-Palatinate.)
My mothers side of my family came from southern Italy/Sicily, and my fathers side came from lower Austria and bavaria
Schöner Beitrag,Danke! 👍🏾😉
Ich danke auch dafür zuschauen zu dürfen.👍🏻 schönes Video
I'm from western Minnesota where most people are of mostly German, Norwegian or Swedish decent. Names ending in 'son' or 'sen' are very common.
luke lee that also common in England , since the anglo Saxon did that and also surname with ending in -sen is high in Yorkshire where the viking colonised
Hi, Luke, I am from Eastern Minnesota and it is very similar in my town. German, Norwegian, Swedish and Irish are the most common.
luke lee those are best surnames imo
Woke American I have no reason to think surnames of one linguistic origin are any better than any others.
luke lee I am from the twin cities
I live in Wisconsin and yes, most people around here have at least some German ancestry. There are also a lot of Norwegians in my neck of the woods. And there are tons of Amish near my home (very nice people). I have a bit of German ancestry, I think my great grandfather was half German, but most of my ancestors are Eastern European or Russian.
Could be from Eesti or Soumi :)
Perfect Mixture....
You pretty. 😍
Born and raised in WI. German/Polish!
@@SHOREHILLEYEWEAR Suomi*
Very interesting video. I can definitely trace this history in my family tree. In fact, knowing more about it helps me fill in some of the details that are missing, like when my great-great-great-grandfather from Baden immigrated here.
I'm descended from Germans who settled in Pennsylvania and South Carolina,who were here in the mid 1750's. Good vid,man.
I'm a Boere Afrikaner living in Orania, South Africa. Our language is a combination of Dutch and German. My family came to Swellendam from Hesse Kassel in 1829. It is fascinating to think how many volksgenote I might have in north America. Prost and love!
Cherish that town. A refuge for white South Africans.
Great video! There’s a reason the most “American” thing to do is have a summertime cookout where we eat hotdogs, hamburgers and potato salad (all German cuisine). There are many other German things that Americans do, like put up Christmas trees in December for example. I am also glad you brought up the oppression of German Americans during WW1, I have many family stories that were passed down to me about my ancestors being discriminated against, yet there are no books written about this subject. It is truly a forgotten history and I blame the mainstream media for suppressing the subject. We’re just immigrants who came and settled in America to escape hardship in the old country, just like everyone else who came here.
We were also slaves for a bit
Yeah it is really unfortunate what happened to the Germans
@@ericschulze5641 when?
Us English also put up Christmas trees in December, but we are known as Anglo Saxons, and where did the Saxons come from? Yes that’s it north Germainia aka modern day north Germany and Holland.
@@matty6848 yes but Anglo Saxons came to Britain more than a thousand years ago and the French invaded and came in large making a massive impact on the language culture and genetics so modern day British people have more in common with the welsh Scots and French than Germans in contrast to America whose German immigration was much more recently and on a larger scale
I'm a proud southern Brazilian German descendent
Ein sehr gutes Video danke schön
It is important to keep in mind, though, that at the height of German immigration to the United States in the early 19th century, there was no unified German nation or country. Instead what is now Germany was a quilt of several kingdoms, dukedoms, countys etc. with different laws, currencies, flags etc. A person coming to the US at that time would probably not even identify him- or herself as "German", but rather as Prussian, Bavarian, Hessian etc. and someone from the Lower Rhine region (where I live) for example would probably feel a much closer connection to someone coming from the Netherlands than from Bavaria (even linguistically btw, even today, it is easier for me to understand the Dutch language than any of the Southern dialects).
Now, what you wrote is pretty much a description of modern day pride in Germany also. What you need to take into account is that many "Germans" that immigrated did so because of religious prosecution and the failed attempt to form a unified (democratic) German state. So in all likelihood, allot of the immigrants where actually fellows that wanted a unified Germany and identified as Germans for that matter but were extremely disappointed and left "Germany" because it failed to unify.
MissyLaMotte I’m Dutch myself, and you guys always understand me surprisingly well. I do not live near the rhine, but I do live near the German border in the North (Groningen-Leer/Bremen), and everytime I’m there and need help: somebody starts speaking a mixture of Dutch and German to me, and are able to understand me perfectly fine when I speak Dutch to them. It’s really amazing how different yet so similar our languages are!
in the beginning of the 19th century there was no modern state called Germany but there has been a German people and identity. so trust me, they all considered themselves German and were called like that by others. the beginning of German identity goes back to the high middle ages and even the holy roman empire was colloquially referred to as Germany since the 16th century.
CrazyTraffic True, although, the people from the rhineland have been under dutch rule briefly multiple times, and are quite closely situated to them. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they called themselves Dutch tho. Especially since they sailed with the Dutch West Indies Company.
@@royhoeksema5720 "dutch" derives from "deutsch" aka german. the dutch were considered germans at least until their independence in the 16/17th century and they even continued to call themselves (neder-)duits afterwards. the english term "dutch" was used until the 16th century for all german-speaking folks (including those in the netherlands). also, the rhineland was hardly ever under any dutch rule (i'm from cologne) but some eastern rhenish regions were in fact close to dutch affairs and culture. so no need for any rhinlander to call himself "dutch" when the dutch called themselves duits. during these times the dutch were considered a german variant just like the swiss-germans who happened to live in an independent state.
I’m in California and my fiancé is from Wülfrath (near Köln). I was born in ‘71 and have never taken foreign language lessons, yet he seemed impressed by how familiar with the German language I am. Turns out I had a much older sibling who went to private school and took German as her foreign language, so I was familiar with her “funny writing” (7’s and umlauts, as I recall). In addition I had the privilege of caring for a few elderly people who were German American, one of whom was born 1902 in Pioneer Township, South Dakota and learned English as a second language when she began public school (kindergarten!). Not to mention that I was raised watching The Lawrence Welk Show. German Americans have made major contributions to American economy and culture. Reading over these comments, I’m laughing so hard! This is what I’ve noticed about Germans. They are SO ethnically identified! Swabians or Silesians are NOT Bavarians, etc. I think the German stereotype, if there can be said to be one, IS Bavarian, with beer, sausage, lederhosen and “oompah musik” (Oktoberfest?), which are activities that non-Bavarian Germans quickly and clearly point out don’t go on in the region they’re from. I equate it with American rivalry between regional identification. German language connects all the regions of Germany, but I’ve learned how very different from each other they are culturally. Vive la différence! I love this country and all of its regions, and ALL the European ones of mine and my fellow Americans’ ancestry. Thanks for posting this video!
English is a germanic language!
would be nice if more Germans would see that multiculturism what we had
Artemis fowl: Germany was an is now also very multicultural. I always lough when someone is speaking of german genes. Germany was founded in 1871. It was an still is in the middle of Europe and everyone around 'visited' conquered, occupied and developed the region you know name germany. For hundreds of years. Most of us feel as Europeans.
Its weird to see a small german town like Wülfrath (20k inhabitants) being mentioned by an American in the comment section of a random YT video. I grew up in Wülfrath, what a coincidence!
the german nation is far older than 1871, you are talking about the german nation state. and in fact, most germans still identify themselves as german, then with their region and then as europeans. and btw, the conquering stuff wasn't just germany, actually tribes from what is now germany founded france, england and others.
I'm German and pray that I was more German.. I love my people!
@Pedro Victor xenophobic piece of shit
I love your women
@@lawliet2263 haha
My great-grandparents taught German and Lutheran dogma in a separate school, one mile down the road from the public school. My Grandmother and father walked that mile every afternoon. Separation of Church and State.
When you realise that exist more German than Amerikan in the US. Aufstieg↗️ "Stonks"
😂
I mean 80 percent of the USA are Europeans.
I think "Amerikan" could be a term for German-Americans.
WWSO- There are no "Americans" in US, they are settler/invaders, calling them sleves "white"
@@ngonea americans are people who live in america
I am pleased to be living inside a State Of German heritage. I was born at Ulm, Germany April 6. 1945.
Jerry Blizzard umm ww2?
Did both your parents survive this nightmare?
April 1945 was in the lost months of the war.
Ulm is OP, don’t you know.
Haha funny, I grew up in Ulm and in 2h I'll drive there and visit friends :) The city is evolving a lot.
Very well done and informative. I am of Pennsylvania Dutch decent dating back to Pennsylvania in 1754.
in the midwest especally by the great lakesi n wisconsin every other person either has a polish or german last name
Yeep
A video about texas german brought me here. Very interesting stuff. Greetings from Germany
What video was it? I have been doing some research about the Germans in Texas and Northern Mexico. Very fascinating. My mother is from Northern Mexico and I will be living in Germany soon.
Grüße von Texas. (Nein, bin ich nicht Deutsch.)
There is a German Texan language if that helps
Sabra Cadabra There are two books you can buy from amazon that talk about the colonization into Texas with ships and passenger lists. It has the letters from the prince who organized it. I bought them because two branches of my dads family are original founding families of Fredericksburg. I just looked for books about Texas German colonies and found them.
Texas Chicken fried steak is a version of Vienna Schnitzel.
This is quite the fascinating video! As an African American from Maryland, and I didn't really know how deep German roots really went in this country until college. It amazes me how many still keep up with traditions like oktoberfest and still have clothing inspired from the region. It kind of makes me want to explore the Midwest now and see more of your experiences and culture.
oktoberfest is NOT a german tradition. It is a local bavarian (small sub german cultural group) tradition which went compleatlly nuts in fame around the world. In germany there are only few people actually celebrationg oktoberfest. If you drive just 50km from munich you will find out that they are having a different feast, compleattly seperate from "Oktoberfest". Also nobody in germany is wearing "Lederhosen or Dirndl", traditional BAVARIAN clothes. If yozu were that in northern germany or in middle germany people would think you are retardet and trieying to insult them. Most germans are really anoyied by people thinking "Oktoberfest" and Bavarian clothes are representing germans. THEY ARE NOT. Germany has sooooo many different sub cultures with their own feast and traditional clothing, heck if everybody would speak in their regional dialecrt nobody would understand anybody anymore. The main thing Germans have united is the language and the love for feast and beer. You have to remember that modern germany was over 1000 years split into 500-1000 different countries loosly connected. this also explains why there are austrians and swiss. They are basically ethinc germans who didnt join the political unity of Germany for historic reasons. They are ethnical sub german cultures with their own countrie. The german unity is actually only about 150 years old. Technically the US is older than Germany. Also believe me if I say that you wont find many actual "germans" in the US today. Most are 100% americanized and only have limited knowledge of german cultures (best example the Oktoberfest=german mistake) If you want to experience german culture you have to come to germany, and i mean not only bavaria.
draco2351 - It's great if we can all appreciate each other's cultures, learn and grown, instead of this moronic 'identity politics' rammed down our throat by ideologies and politicians that want to divide and control. As a Christian European-American, one of my biggest inspirations growing up was Cassius Clay/ Mohammed Ali, not because he was black or became Muslim or was against the Vietnam War, but because he was a MAN who was searching for righteousness, was willing to learn and change his opinions and was willing to risk/ sacrifice fame and fortune for what he believed by his own lights was GOOD in the face of great political and press opposition. He could have taken the easy way out and just enjoyed his money and fame. He didn't. Later, he went to Ireland to the town one of his forefathers came from and his funeral was a beautiful thing, very moving. He wasn't a saint, but he fought the good fight and in the end came around to embrace all humanity. He was also a beautiful thing to watch in the ring and in interviews. I also studied in Germany - at the German taxpayer's expense, universities are free, no tuition, in Germany - so a big thank you to Gernany! I found the Germans to be very thoughtful and philosophical, eager to do the right thing, struggling to come to fair terms with and make amends for the horrors of the Third Reich. Hard-working and honest. A big "Prost!" to Germany and be proud of your heritage. Zum Wohl!
Not just 46 millions, the number of Germans in the USA with unknown/unclaimed heritage nmust be much bigger, probably more than 100 millions.
Sehr Interessant.
In researching my maternal grandmother's family, she claimed they were all early English colonists, I found the name "Bütefisch" from northern Bavaria. He had also come over to Virginia fight for the British but at some point deserted them and went over to the Revolutionaries' side. The family evenutally moved to a settlement in Illinois named Virginia founded mostly by Virginians. The name got changed three times until it ended up as "Petefish." The bank in that town was founded by my grandmother's great-uncle and to this day still carries his name. If she knew it, she never let on that her family had any German as she had lived through both world wars as an adult in Minnesota. That was typical of that generation in the 1950's.
Outstanding video. I'm watching from Ireland, and had only vaguely known how extensive and prolific the German legacy was in America. Hats off, great video.
Love Ireland:.Greetings from Lower Saxony
Pull up to Boston aka America's Dublin lol
This clip is ,fully a nonsense .British + lrish in USA are 3 time more in numbers than germans ,and except in economic field ,their contribution in USA life can.t be' compared. 40 presidents against only 2 german americans presidents.
I wish german americans would be proud like irish americans and celebrate st patricks day or oktoberfest but this is more bavarian not really dutch but no netherlandic for sure
@@ramadanhalili762 Fully a nonsense? Good luck learning English.
My grandpa didn't have to fight in the war because of his children, but told me that he was grateful for many reasons, one of those reasons was because all of his family was in Germany
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Hallo meine Waffenbrüder
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No, Empire superior.
Ethnically speaking, WWII was in fact Germans fighting Germans.
Nope as most where germans half or less
Not really. But the Revolutionary was was Brits fighting Brits.
Nope. Most of the battles of WWII were in the Eastern front. The German armed forces suffered 80% of its military deaths in the Eastern Front. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Results
Mr. Nobody italian americans were fighting italians in north africa sicily and italy
Mr. Nobody Well technically every war ever is just Ethiopian vs Ethiopian. Also to the guy saying it was mostly scots and Irish vs brits, Scots ARE British
It‘s a shame, that these americans with german ancestors are probably prouder of their heritage, than germans born in Germany.
@James Smith most Germans in Germany have become ethnomasochists on the level of Swedes
@James Smith Germans typically associate their pride with their respective ethnic backgrounds and countries they are from (Saxon, Thuringian, Hessian, Bavarian, Phalian and so on). There's allot of bad connotation to overall German Pride due to Hitler. Unfortunately that has gone as far that the old-Germanic branch of tradition nearly went extinct. You'll barely find towns where they celebrate runes or pagan culture predating the christian era.
Exactly although there are always Germans that even going out recently will never forget their origins and the pride of it as politicians intend to do.
He dont know what he said, think he means himself. Im a proud Hesse !
@@BroadwayRonMexico wrong. Im 20 years old with ashblond hair, moonlight blue eyes, trained body and 191 cm tall. Even my face features are typical german -> high cheeks etc. My IQ is located by 131. And i do know that Ive to thank my genes for all of this. Im proud of our history, inventions, language and our places which looks almost like typical locations in a fairytale. You do mean the north of germany which already lost much of its culture and identity like berlin. But i can state that "Berliners" tend to be leftists because of the influlence of communism in the past and the today cultural marxism. Berlin isnt that what it was once 100 years ago. Many buildings were destoryed in WW2 and not rebuilded again. Its nearly a leftists shithole which much arabic or turkish family clans. Just as disgusting as Hamburg or Bremen.
Many thanks. Great information !
This was a great presentation. I wanted to know what people populated Oregon and Washington states recently. You just answered that question.
The "Deutsche belt" it's funny how they settled in the almost identical climate as northern Europe/Germany. Half French and German here, it can be confusing and conflicting. Merican though.
We have a German belt in Canada too. Goes from Manitoba through Saskatchewan to Alberta. Saskatchewan is pretty much the buckle. Even our accent in this part of Canada (Prairie Provinces) are influenced by our German ancestors, and we sound more like people from the American Midwest and Great Plains than those guys from Eastern Canada or the Left Coast.
Also it is called the industrial belt, wonder why?
I came from Estonia, and because I live in southern california (aka: the hottest place on earth), I like to go to the mountains pretty much every week.
If people emigrate from home country for whatever reason, they like to stick to the climate that they are most familiar with.
@@emilv.3693 Absolutely, unless you're speaking post war when South American warmth seemed more pleasant.
Ausgezeichnet! Danke. Sehr gut! Ich bin Deutsch Amerikaner.
@Timotheus Es gibt keine Deutsch Amerikaner, genauso wenig gibt es Deutsch Türken oder sonst etwas in dieser Art. Du bist was du bist durch Geburt, durch die Vererbung der Gene deiner Eltern. Wenn deine Eltern Deutsche sind, bist du Deutscher völlig egal wo du geboren wurdest oder lebst. Du kannst durch die Geburt in den USA die Amerikanische Staatangehörigkeit bekommen, oder dadurch das deine Eltern diese schon "erworben" haben. Aber du bist und bleibst Deutscher. Durch den Erhalt/Erweb eines Stücks Papier auf dem steht: Nationality / Unites States of Amerika verändern sich deine Gene nicht! Dieses stück Papier gibt dir lediglich die Rechte und Pflichten eines jedes Staatsbürgers der USA. Eine Staatsangehörigkeit kann man erwerben oder sie wird einem verliehen, die Zugehörigkeit zu einer Art/Ethnie ist nur durch Geburt möglich und durch kein Papier der Welt zu verändern. Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Liebe aus Deutschland.
"Wenn deine Eltern Deutsche sind, bist du Deutscher völlig egal wo du geboren wurdest oder lebst. " Falsch
Observerl vielleicht ist ein Elternteil Deutsch und das andere Amerikanisch...
Falsch deutsch ist nur wer in Deutschland geboren wurde von deutschen Eltern und dort aufwächst. Diese peinlichen 1/16 GERMANZ sind nichts als die Ergüsse einer Gesellschaft voller unsicherer Menschen die eine seltsame obsession bzgl "heritage" und "blood" haben. Naja wenn man selbst keine Geschichte & Kultur hat raubt man eben die eines anderen Volkes.
Echt gutes Video!
My grandfather got into trouble for speaking German in school.
I'm a German American and I live in a area with the highest population of Germans in Wisconsin(Maybe even in the whole Country) . We have held onto a large amount of our roots. Very common to see German flags on peoples house and we calibrate German holidays. Almost everyone I know is either full German or mostly. I can still remember being a child and sitting on my grandfathers lap, telling me stories about our family while he would make sausage and listen to polka on the radio. lol Yes we still have local Polka radio stations.
I was born in Mexico to an American mother and Mexican father. My mother's maiden name is Fausnaugh, and that side of my family comes from Pennsylvania Deutsch. I have been to Germany two times. I am proud of my German heritage; more proud of my German heritage than my English, that's for sure!
@@Clumsy-vp3if its because this video about germans dumbass, in another video he will proud about english relax🤣🤣🤣
Hi! I consider this name an interesting americanization of Fassnacht, quite plausible as ...bach has usually been changed into ...baugh.
Roots to be really proud... The germans always work hard, cheers from Argentina.
Hello Hitler.
@@andrewmaddox2889 Germans and Argentina... should I be concerned
What's ironic is that Argentina's Italian immigration is almost parallel to that of America's German immigration. Argentina was founded by a Latin European country (Spain), but its population has predominantly roots to another Latin European country (Italy). Similarly, the US was founded by a Germanic European country (England), but its white population predominantly comes from another Germanic European country (Germany). Fun fact, the country with the third highest German immigrant population is Argentina, and the country with the third highest Italian immigrant population is the US. Anyway, in some cases you can even see how the influence of these immigrant groups overshadow their colonizers' influence. American food has a lot of German influence, as seen through the hot dog and hamburger, two American classics. Argentineans also consume a lot of Italian dishes like milanesa, pizza and pastas. In a way, Argentina was to South America, what the US is to North America. Both were the lands of opportunities, though one clearly went south (no pun intended), very much like their European counterpart. I also notice a parallel between Germany and Italy. Italy is to the Latin and Catholic world what Germany is to the Germanic and Protestant world. Catholicism was officialized in what is present-day Italy, and the Protestant Reformation started in present-day Germany. Both the terms Germanic and Italic are used to describe two linguistic branches in the Indo-European family. Also, both Germany and Italy were highly defragmentalized territories, ruled by multiples kingdoms, duchies and counties, before unifying fairly recently in the 1800s. Because of that, they were late comers in the colonial race, hence why they only got leftover colonies in Africa. Both were allies in WWII as well. Hitler wanted to create the Third Reich (First Reich was the HRE and Second Reich was Prussia), while Mussolini wanted to revive the Roman Empire, by ruling the entire Mediterranean. Hitler wanted to rename Germany's capital Berlin to Germania, so that it becomes to the Germanic world what Italy's capital Rome became to the Romance world.
Born in schuykill county, pa my family has been here since the 1600s and I still live in Pennsylvania. Cool video
German obviously
My great great grandparents (I think) came to the United States from Bavaria to escape Prussian expansion in the late 1800's and settled down in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The only reason why I researched this is because of this video.
" Prussian expansion".. into where? Prussia did not "expand " into Bavaria!. Prussia created the German Nation through blood Iron and courage.. though Prussia should have taken over Franconia.The nationalist Protestants of Franconia desired that,but instead it ended up part of Bavaria!
Kaneedaaaaa!!!!….
There might be more English than German surnames in America, but that means nothing. Because of the anti-German hysteria preceding both world wars, many Americans of German heritage chose to make their last last names sound more English, in order to avoid harassment For example, many "Schmidts" changed their names to "Smith" in those times. Also, over one hundred years ago, standard spelling was not always used. Therefore when immigrants arriving from Germany, who mostly spoke no English, pronounced their last names to immigration authorities who often spoke no German, their names were spelled the way they sounded to the Americans, and not the way in the way they were spelled in Germany. For example, the German name "Koehler" became "Kaylor." These are just a few of numerous examples. Also, consider the huge culinary influence of Germany here in America. While the American breakfast of bacon and eggs is very English, some of the most popular foods and drinks in America, hail from Germany, i.e. hot dogs, hamburgers, kaiser rolls, pretzels, and beer.
There are numerous tales that Germans and other ethnic groups changed their names long before the wars to blend in the environment more easily.
It's not true there's an undercount of Anglo-Americans people of English descent are still probably the biggest ethnic group in America still. www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Americans&ved=2ahUKEwi1sOWvrNzfAhVMRBUIHYt8DPgQFjAAegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw3w0cQoCWT3iHIU2L7jOE9E&cshid=1546887455273
@@user-zi3ee8oj1i Nope. Despite the undercount, the Germans make up the largest ethnic group in the United States!
@@ABHINAVNR not true
@@ABHINAVNR Anglo Saxons are the most successful and largest Germanic group in the world.
Ein sehr schöner und informativer Film über die Ursprüng der Deutschen und deutschsprachigen Länder wie Austia und der Schweiz sowie den verwandten Völkern wie Norweger und Schweden. Danke schön.
I have an interesting mix of Irish, German, and Polish ancestry. And that's just the parts I know. I identify as American, but I also find comfort in my heritage and I love how so many people in the USA have such an interesting look on heritage.
That is common! Apparently Irish, German, Poles, and Italians intermarry so much in the US (especially in the northeast & midwest) they argued in the 90s that we’re forming our own ethnic group.
Pozdro z Polski
Vielen dank,mein jung Freund Mason, und viel Glueck; and God bless you.
Germans had built USA big, strong and beautiful.
Nope all the foreigner had build usa
Deswegen die national Sprache ist Englische den?
The slaves
@@alanvt1 nope
@@Lando-kx6so no
Bin auch Deutschamerikaner. Wir sind zeit 1850 nach Amerka ausgewandert. Zuhaus sprechen wir immernoch Dietsch!
Epic)).
Very cool post! My great great grandpa and great great grandma came to Hastings, Nebraska in 1892.
Nebraskan People(majority)German or Scandinavian??
Greetings to all american people from thüringia, germany
Thüringia is where my family immigrated from. At least the ones whose last name I carry.
We are brothers and sisters germany and america
Meine Mutter kommt aus Thüringen. Grüsse aus Texas
@@JoJo-gi5sc Meine Grossmutter Magdalena Wuerst war von Altenberg, Thuringen
If we are brothers and sisters, as you say, then why did we go to war with each other twice in the last century??? And why is America paying for Germany's military defense right now, while Germans enjoy cradle to grave social welfare, which Americans cannot afford because America spends astronomically for Germany's military defense? America is more like Germany's father, and Germany and all of Europe are like spoiled undeserving and ungrateful children who refuse to take care of themselves, even though Europe is richer than the USA.
Did you know that a German tribe called the Anglo-Saxons had a major impact on England?
Nowhere near as much as the celts, romans and vikings
@@davehoward22 Is this meant to be a joke?
There was no Germanic tribe called "Anglo-Saxons". There were two tribes called "Angles" and "Saxons".
@@dorthusiast no. There's twice more people have Celtic blood in England then Ireland Scotland Wales combined for instance... since DNA testing came about Anglo-Saxon blood isn't nearly as prevalent as thought to be
@@davehoward22 nonsense ...
Loved the presentation
Some of the earliest German settlers came over in the Palatine migration of 1710. They settled in the Mohawk Valley in upstate NY and in SC. A few floated down the Susquehanna R. and settled with other Germans in south eastern and south central PA.
German culture is beautiful.
king of horn african. they are to conformists with the norms proclaimed in the society ,too submissive to their leaders ,too easy to be guided fascism and too brainwashed to believe in the own superiority what will ironically because of the proclaimed idiocracy in germany lead again in a lot of problems for europe
sv svs angela merkel want to destroy german culture and history.
legofreak446 well said. American is for white european and native people.
The German people are very noble and kind, specially after WW2. All the nazi situation was the economy' fault people were driven to madness.
H Yuval they are submissive to who rule over their country,they accept whatever is being told to them in the same time they believe in the own superiority ,holy right to decide about the fate of europe at the end what people are allowed to live and where they have a very sinistar and gruel nature their motivation today may have different direction but in its nature they are not different than 80 years ago
Very interesting. The Flag you designed is awesome. God bless America 🇩🇪🇺🇸 Perhaps the city of Bismarck in North Dakota would have been interesting to mention.
The type of German heritage I associate myself with the most is that of the Hutterites, who are Germans from Russia. They immigrated from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands in the 1700s to Russia and Ukraine while a small part of their population had gained some Slavic heritage in the meantime. They then immigrated to the United States and Canada in the 1870s to avoid Russian assimilation and now their diaspora is spread throughout the Dakotas, Montana, Minnesota, Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. My paternal grandmother, for example, had a 23andMe dna test that showed she is 63.3% compared to my 29.3%, while she also has 8.6% Eastern European compared to my 0% (it likely got too watered down to appear in my results). It was pretty fun to find this stuff out :D
@@kimfagerstrom3649 I'm sorry, but I don't know if some of that info is correct. I'd have to see where you'd gotten it from. The maps I'd been seeing of the Swedish Empire during the 1700s certainly didn't extend as far south as Ukraine, though I did see acquisitions in Pomeriana (Poland) and parts of northern Germany as well as the Baltic states. I did see at least one story about the colors of the Ukrainian flag deriving from the Swedish flag because of an allyship that developed during the war between King Carl XII and Peter the Great, though the writer said they didn't know if there was any truth to that. I'd say probably, but I wouldn't know either. But yeah, North Dakota, Wisconsin, and Minnesota defintely have a higher concentration of Scandinavians than other states, though Minnesota for example apparently claims about 2x as much German heritage as it does Norwegian and 4x as much compared to Swedish heritage. The Hutterites were undoubtedly southern Germanic, but I suppose I failed to mention they settled in South Dakota before spreading elsewhere. South Dakota also has some Scandinavian lineage, but is predominantly German. Heck, even I have Norwegian ancestry but even that is watered down for me in general, coming from someone who's mixed race, and I have more than just German when it comes to the French/German categorization (i.e. Dutch, Flemish, Rhinelander, etc.)
Sehr Gut! I always love hearing my Oma pronouncing "W" words in Eng as "V". And my Opa sounds completely American. It's like he wasn't even born in Deutschland LOL. I can trace my German ancestry back to the 10th century (:
10th century?
Deutschland ist wunderbar
Fakt
@amrmatinea simej nö
Deutschland WAR wunderbar before Merk...!!!
Germany? You mean turk-syria?
@amrmatinea simej Yes it is
Thank you very much for the really good video! It is very interesting how and where the Germans settled in the USA. I am fascinated by this topic and since a professional stay in Chicago and Milwaukee I am even more interested !! Greetings from Bavaria! Alex
It's a shame what happend in german history and it's a shame we all can't be just brothers and sisters. Even the englisch language originates in ancient german as the englanders (anglo-saxons are germanic) the scandinavian and germanic tribes were related to eachother as well as many slavic tribes. That's why cultures, feelings and values are that similar although. It's a beautiful thing and the world growing together is beautiful as well. Greetings from Germany
I’m from Minnesota and my whole Family is 100% German. My great great grandma was born in Minnesota and she only knew German as a kid and had to teach herself English
this explains why my ancestors were german
That was interesting. Greetings from Germany.😄
Yasmine Steinbauer. Danke Yasmine!🇩🇪
World War I happened and the US spread propaganda about Germany and people are convinced about this if you were stop speaking German Germans is not learned in school
German and English was the official language of the United States
Geiler Beitrag!
Danke für das Filmchen in youtube. Ich bin Deutsch-Amerikaner in der vierten Generation!!!! Hier im Südosten des Bundesstaates Florida gibt es immer noch deustsche Feste.