German

The German people appear to have originated on the coastal region of the Baltic Sea and in the Baltic islands in the Bronze and early Iron ages. From about 500 bce they began to move southward, crushing and absorbing the existing Celtic kingdoms; from 58 bce…

German immigrants to the United States carried the legend with them, and in Pennsylvania the groundhog came to be substituted for the badger.

German settlers played an important and sustained part in the city’s development; a wave of immigration that occurred after Germany’s unsuccessful revolution in 1848 contributed wealthy and cultured refugees. As the city’s largest ethnic group, the Germans developed their own society that included schools, churches,…

More than 24,000 Germans also lived in Manhattan, a number that vastly increased following the failed revolutions of the 1840s. Irish workers had to contend with signs warning “No Irish need apply,” and their poor circumstances soon created one of New York’s most notorious slums, the Five Points…

…by the mass emigration of Germans after the Revolutions of 1848. The first American turnverein (gymnastics club) was founded in Cincinnati in 1848. Germans were also instrumental in founding America’s first athletic club in New York City in 1868. What popularized physical culture most, however, was the National Police Gazette,…

A great majority of Germans believed in him until the very end. In this respect he stands out among almost all of the dictators of the 19th and 20th centuries, which is especially impressive when we consider that the Germans were among the best-educated peoples in the 20th century.…