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Author: Gustav Streckfuss Publisher: Prussian Press ISBN: 9780692871591 Category : Languages : en Pages : 132
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About a German-American Tale A stormy, courageous, and incredible memoir of a German immigrant who crossed the Atlantic Ocean together with his two young daughters in 1834 in hope of finding a better life. As this book's title suggests, Gustav Streckfuss tells the compelling story of his voyage from Bremen to Philadelphia, and his struggle to make a living in the New World. In this compelling memoir, the author recounts his hopes and dreams, his regrets and hardships, the times fortune smiled upon him, and his desperate attempts to start a business to avoid losing his daughters to indentured servitude. As the clock ticks down, the German immigrant's financial struggles reach new lows and push him to the edge of despair. A German-American Tale is much more than a memoir; it's an adventurous saga and historical account of life in the United States in the early 19th century, filled with many surprising incidents and stories of real people that transport the reader back in time.
Author: Gustav Streckfuss Publisher: Prussian Press ISBN: 9780692871591 Category : Languages : en Pages : 132
Book Description
About a German-American Tale A stormy, courageous, and incredible memoir of a German immigrant who crossed the Atlantic Ocean together with his two young daughters in 1834 in hope of finding a better life. As this book's title suggests, Gustav Streckfuss tells the compelling story of his voyage from Bremen to Philadelphia, and his struggle to make a living in the New World. In this compelling memoir, the author recounts his hopes and dreams, his regrets and hardships, the times fortune smiled upon him, and his desperate attempts to start a business to avoid losing his daughters to indentured servitude. As the clock ticks down, the German immigrant's financial struggles reach new lows and push him to the edge of despair. A German-American Tale is much more than a memoir; it's an adventurous saga and historical account of life in the United States in the early 19th century, filled with many surprising incidents and stories of real people that transport the reader back in time.
Author: Arnie Bernstein Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250006716 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 368
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A history of the German-American Bund traces the efforts of Fritz Kuhn and his followers to overthrow the U.S. government with a fascist dictatorship, tracing their private and public meetings, the development of their own version of the SS and Hitler Youth and the politicians, lawyer, journalist and criminals who used respective means to counter the movement.
Author: Michael Teitelbaum Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap ISBN: 9780448486185 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 28
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Young Fievel Mousekewitz and his friends must figure out a way to stop the attacks of a dreaded band of cats known as The Mott Street Maulers.
Author: Walter D. Kamphoefner Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442264985 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 311
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This book offers a fresh look at the Germans—the largest and perhaps the most diverse foreign-language group in 19th century America. Drawing upon the latest findings from both sides of the Atlantic, emphasizing history from the bottom up and drawing heavily upon examples from immigrant letters, this work presents a number of surprising new insights. Particular attention is given to the German-American institutional network, which because of the size and diversity of the immigrant group was especially strong. Not just parochial schools, but public elementary schools in dozens of cities offered instruction in the mother tongue. Only after 1900 was there a slow transition to the English language in most German churches. Still, the anti-German hysteria of World War I brought not so much a sudden end to cultural preservation as an acceleration of a decline that had already begun beforehand. It is from this point on that the largest American ethnic group also became the least visible, but especially in rural enclaves, traces of the German culture and language persisted to the end of the twentieth century.
Author: Eleanor Ramrath Garner Publisher: Holiday House ISBN: 1561456810 Category : Young Adult Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 333
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An engrossing coming-of-age autobiography of a young American caught in Nazi Germany during World War II. During the Great Depression, when Eleanor is nine, her family moves from her beloved America to Germany, from which her parents had emigrated years before and where her father has been offered a job he cannot pass up. But when war suddenly breaks out as her family is crossing the Atlantic, they realize returning to the United States isn't an option. They arrive in Berlin as enemy aliens. Eleanor tries to maintain her American identity as she feels herself pulled into the turbulent life roiling around her. She and her brother are enrolled in German schools and in Hitler's Youth (a requirement). She fervently hopes for an Allied victory, yet for years she must try to survive the Allied bombs shattering her neighborhood. Her family faces separations, bombings, hunger, the final fierce battle for Berlin, the Russian invasion, and the terrors of Soviet occupancy. This compelling story is heart-racing at times and immerses readers in a first-hand account of Nazi Germany, surviving World War II as a civilian, and immigration.
Author: Frank Trommler Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781571812902 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 372
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While Germans, the largest immigration group in the United States, contributed to the shaping of American society and left their mark on many areas from religion and education to food, farming, political and intellectual life, Americans have been instrumental in shaping German democracy after World War II. Both sides can claim to be part of each other's history, and yet the question arises whether this claim indicates more than a historical interlude in the forming of the Atlantic civilization. In this volume some of the leading historians, social scientists and literary scholars from both sides of the Atlantic have come together to investigate, for the first time in a broad interdisciplinary collaboration, the nexus of these interactions in view of current and future challenges to German-American relations.
Author: Jason Ripper Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317477049 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 431
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This book is ideal for any introductory American history instructor who wants to make the subject more appealing. It's designed to supplement a main text, and focuses on "personalized history" presented through engaging biographies of famous and less-well-known figures from 1865 to the present. Historical patterns and trends appear as they are seen through individual lives, and the selection of profiled individuals reflects a cultural awareness and a multicultural perspective.
Author: Ika Hügel-Marshall Publisher: Peter Lang ISBN: 9781433102783 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 170
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"Invisible Woman: Growing Up Black in Germany, republished in a new annotated edition, recounts Ika Hügel-Marshall's experiences growing up as the daughter of a white German woman and an African-American man after World War II. As an «occupation baby», born in a small German town in 1947, Ika has a double stigma: Not only has she been born out of wedlock, but she is also Black. Although loved by her mother, Ika's experiences with German society's reaction to her skin color resonate with the insidiousness of racism, thus instilling in her a longing to meet her biological father. When she is seven, the state places her into a church-affiliated orphanage far away from where her mother, sister, and stepfather live. She is exposed to the scorn and cruelty of the nuns entrusted with her care. Despite the institutionalized racism, Ika overcomes these hurdles, and finally, when she is in her forties, she locates her father with the help of a good friend and discovers that she has a loving family in Chicago."--Publisher description.
Author: Gustav Streckfuss
Author: Gustav Streckfuss
Author: Arnie Bernstein
Author: Michael Teitelbaum
Author: Walter D. Kamphoefner
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Author: Eleanor Ramrath Garner
Author: Frank Trommler
Author: Arthur Stanwood Pier
Author: Jason Ripper
Author: Ika Hügel-Marshall