They introduced bowling, and picnics, and taverns, and lager beer, and accordians and covered wagons. What’s not to like about Germans. Why, they even were put in internment camps during both world wars, but only those actually born in Germany. As for the Japanese, they stuck all the yellow devils in there during WW II, but still it wasn’t nice to do that to the Germans, even to that limited extent. And so they should get reparations. Mach schnell!
Much of our Christmas exhuberance comes from the German side. Authentic colonial “English” Christmases will not actually feature that much decoration or anything.
Interesting about internment camps; I’d like to know more but basically what I get is that Germans and Italians were also due to go to camps. Probably like you said, natives, but either way it ended up limited (probably partly it wasn’t easy to pick them out - wonder if any Chinese in CA got camped). My mom’s family (or dad’s - totally different locales) NOR her best-friend Italian family never had any trouble in WWII. There was more “discrimination” in WWI against mom’s family meat plant.