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Do you want to know why violent unhinged leftists are treating Trump as if he was the second coming of Hitler? It’s because leading Democrats and members of the liberal media keep calling him that. The New York Post has the latest instance of this: “ He’s of ‘German heritage’: Hillary baits fans into calling Trump a Nazi Hillary Clinton lobbed the video equivalent of a Nazi buzz bomb at Donald Trump on Saturday by making his German heritage a campaign issue. The 37-second clip decrying Trump’s attacks on federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel’s Mexican heritage was subtle — but fans...

Transatlantic relations What Donald Trump learned from his German grandpa Friedrich Drumpf Want to understand the phenomenon called Donald Trump and his surprising rise to the top of the Republican presidential field? Then you'd better check out his German roots, Trump biographer Gwenda Blair tells DW.

The following letter was read at the meeting of the Parish Council of Holy Trinity Church, Boston, on 21 May 2008. The letter announced Sean Cardinal O'Malley's intent to close Holy Trinity Church effective 30 June 2008. His Eminence repeatedly speaks of "Holy Trinity German National Parish" and the German heritage but makes NO MENTION of the hundred or so souls who attend the extraordinary form every Sunday at 0900. (Note: On 22 April 2007, what was then the Indult Mass for the Archdiocese of Boston was moved from Holy Trinity to a suburban territorial parish 10 miles west of...

AUSTIN --Although stories of der Cowboy and die Stinkkatze mayno longer get told in Texas, Germanic linguistics professor Hans Boas wants to make sure nobody forgets them.Boas, an assistant professor at the University of Texas, is the founder and manager of the Texas German Preservation Project. Every month or so Boas ventures forth from his campus office in Austin to small towns like Boerne, Fredericksburg and Crawford to conduct interviews with the dwindling number of old-timers who speak the odd mixture of English and 19th-century German.It's a dialect unique to the Lone Star State, and most of the 8,000 or...

OLEY, Pa. (AP) - July 19, 2006 - The people who run the Oley Legion Diner in Berks County have put up a new sign poking fun at the English-only cheesesteak flap in Philadelphia. The owner of Geno's Steaks in South Philadelphia has posted signs stating, "This is America: When Ordering Speak English." The Oley Legion Diner's new sign says, "Please Order in PA Dutch." The Pennsylvania German-only request isn't enforced, although some regulars say they often speak the dying dialect. Oley resident Carl Sayer says, "Sometimes that comes out first." Paul Kunkel of Emmaus (eh-MAY'-uhs) has taught the dialect...

Marco Benz Descendant of First Gas Automobile Inventor Karl Benz of Mercedes-Benz Joins the U.S. Army Marco Allen Benz a descendant of Karl Benz (inventor of automobile Mercedes Benz) joins the United States Army to defend the United States against terrorism and to assist in a democratic Iraq and Afghanistan for the people of their nation. (PRWEB) December 11, 2005 -- Marco Allen Benz is a descendant of Karl Benz, the German automobile engineer that is regarded as the inventor of the gasoline-powered automobile. Marco Allen Benz was born in St. Louis, Missouri on August 20th 1986, to Douglas Benz...

German-American Day, 2005 A Proclamation by the President of the United States of America German Americans have played an important role in establishing America as a land where liberty is protected for all of its citizens. Each year on German-American Day, we celebrate the contributions the millions of Americans of German descent have made to our great Nation. Among the early German immigrants, many saw America as a beacon of religious freedom and an opportunity for an improved standard of living. German immigrants helped pioneer the first American colony at Jamestown. Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg served as the first Speaker of...

Expert:Major Robert A. Lynn, USMCRDate:5/10/2004Subject:German American espionage? Question5/10/04 Dear Mr. Lynn: As an expert on history, you probably are aware that in 1942 the Japanese-American community on the West Coast of the U.S. was interned because of security and military concerns of espionage and sabotage. I always thought this was suppose to be unfair because I have heard that German Americans and aliens were caught doing the same thing. For example, at the FBI's own website at www.fbi.gov it states the case of the Duquesne Spy Ring. On January 2, 1942, 33 members of a Nazi spy ring headed by...

(IsraelNN.com) The 150-year-old Turn Verein ("gymnastic club" in German) social club in Sacramento, California booted out a Holocaust-deniers conference that was to take place on its premises this coming weekend. The conference, organized under Walter Mueller's European American Culture Council, had to be cancelled. Turn Verein spokespeople claim that they were unaware of the nature of the conference at the time the reservations were made. However, as soon as the matter was brought to their attention this week, Sacramento Turn Verein withdrew their agreement to host the 325-person anti-Semitic conference and returned the European American Culture Council deposit on the...

German-American Day Celebrates More Than 300 Years of German immigration to our shores, beginning with the arrival of 13 Mennonite families from Krefeld on October 6, 1683. Seeking a new life of freedom and opportunity, these immigrants settled in Pennsylvania and founded Germantown near the city of Philadelphia. On this day, we recognize the contributions of those German pioneers, and millions of other German-American immigrants and their descendants, to the life and culture of our great Nation. As one of the largest ethnic groups in the United States, German Americans have greatly influenced our country in the fields of business,...

Germans are America’s big ethnic secret. No people and no culture has contributed more to what the United States is and is becoming. In the nation’s ethnic tangle, no root runs deeper than German America. As a scattered community only fitfully conscious of its own existence, none has more successfully pursued wealth, power and intellectual influence. And as a philosophical force in US politics — a whole political mindset — none has greater potency. Germany as a European state may have lost her way, the German language may struggle to keep its world grip, but the German spirit is alive...

GERMAN-AMERICANS IN TIMES OF STRESS: WORLD WAR I & WORLD WAR II -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Key personalities Charles J. Hexamer (1862-1921). An American-born son of a Forty-Eighter was an engineer from Philadelphia. He founded the National German-American Alliance in 1901 and served as its first president. Hexamer was an apologist for Wilhelmine Germany and a blunt critic of U.S. foreign policy, but nevertheless a proud American. George Sylvester Viereck (1884-1962). Born in Germany, he came to the U.S. while in his teens and was a student at the City College of New York. A promising young poet in both German and...