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| | At a more advanced level Germans have contributed to a numerous areas in American culture and technology. [[Baron von Steuben]], a former Prussian general staff captain, led the reorganization and training of the Continental Army during the [[American Revolution]]. [[Carl Schurz]] helped found the Republican party, while most Germans voted Democratic. | | At a more advanced level Germans have contributed to a numerous areas in American culture and technology. [[Baron von Steuben]], a former Prussian general staff captain, led the reorganization and training of the Continental Army during the [[American Revolution]]. [[Carl Schurz]] helped found the Republican party, while most Germans voted Democratic. |
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| − | After the Nazis came to power in 1933 thousands of scientists, artists, intellectuals and scholars fled to the U.S. The most famous was [[Albert Einstein]]. After World War II, [[Wernher von Braun]], and most of the leading engineers from the former German V-2 rocket project were brought to the U.S. They took the lead in designing military rockets, as well as of rockets for the [[NASA]] space program. Three highly influential intellectuals were diplomat [[Henry Kissinger]] and political philosophers Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss; Strauss was the founder of the [[Neoconservative]] movement.<ref>Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, ''German Émigrés and American Political Thought after World War II'' (1997) [http://www.amazon.com/Hannah-Arendt-Leo-Strauss-Publications/dp/0521599369/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207854178&sr=1-27 excerpt and text search]</ref> | + | After the Nazis came to power in 1933 thousands of scientists, artists, intellectuals and scholars fled to the U.S. The most famous was [[Albert Einstein]]. After World War II, [[Wernher von Braun]], and most of the leading engineers from the former German V-2 rocket project were brought to the U.S. They took the lead in designing military rockets, as well as of rockets for the [[NASA]] space program. Three highly influential intellectuals were diplomat [[Henry Kissinger]] and political philosophers Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss; Strauss was the founder of the [[Neoconservative]] movement.<ref>Peter Graf Kielmansegg, Horst Mewes, and Elisabeth Glaser-Schmidt, ''German Émigrés and American Political Thought after World War II'' (1997) [https://www.amazon.com/Hannah-Arendt-Leo-Strauss-Publications/dp/0521599369/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207854178&sr=1-27 excerpt and text search]</ref> |
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| | see the detailed guide at the Bibliography below | | see the detailed guide at the Bibliography below |
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| − | * Thernstrom, Stephan ed. ''Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups,'' (1980). [http://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Encyclopedia-American-Ethnic-Groups/dp/0674375122/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208115526&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search] | + | * Thernstrom, Stephan ed. ''Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups,'' (1980). [https://www.amazon.com/Harvard-Encyclopedia-American-Ethnic-Groups/dp/0674375122/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1208115526&sr=8-3 excerpt and text search] |
| | ** articles by Frederick C. Luebke, "Austrians," pp. 164–171; Kathleen Neils Conzen, "Germans," pp. 405–425; La Vern J. Rippley, "Germans from Russia," pp. 425–430; Arthur A. Goren, "Jews," pp. 571–598, esp. 576-579; Don Yoder, "Pennsylvania Germans," pp. 770–772; Leo Schelbert, "Swiss," pp. 981–987. | | ** articles by Frederick C. Luebke, "Austrians," pp. 164–171; Kathleen Neils Conzen, "Germans," pp. 405–425; La Vern J. Rippley, "Germans from Russia," pp. 425–430; Arthur A. Goren, "Jews," pp. 571–598, esp. 576-579; Don Yoder, "Pennsylvania Germans," pp. 770–772; Leo Schelbert, "Swiss," pp. 981–987. |
| | * Barrick, Mac E., ed. ''German-American Folklore.''(1987). 264 pp. | | * Barrick, Mac E., ed. ''German-American Folklore.''(1987). 264 pp. |
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| | * O'Connor, Richard. ''German-Americans: an Informal History''. (1968), popular | | * O'Connor, Richard. ''German-Americans: an Informal History''. (1968), popular |
| | * Shaw, Stephen J. ''The Catholic Parish as a Way-Station of Ethnicity and Americanization: Chicago's Germans and Italians, 1903-1939.'' (1991). 206 pp. | | * Shaw, Stephen J. ''The Catholic Parish as a Way-Station of Ethnicity and Americanization: Chicago's Germans and Italians, 1903-1939.'' (1991). 206 pp. |
| − | * Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. ''The German-American Experience'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/German-American-Experience-Don-Heinrich-Tolzmann/dp/1573927317/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207853079&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] | + | * Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. ''The German-American Experience'' (2000) [https://www.amazon.com/German-American-Experience-Don-Heinrich-Tolzmann/dp/1573927317/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207853079&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] |
| | * Trommler, Frank, and Joseph McVeigh, eds. ''America and the Germans: An Assessment of a Three-Hundred-Year History.'' (2 vols. 1985). 745pp | | * Trommler, Frank, and Joseph McVeigh, eds. ''America and the Germans: An Assessment of a Three-Hundred-Year History.'' (2 vols. 1985). 745pp |
| | * Wittke, Carl. ''We Who Built America: The Saga of the Immigrant'' (1939), ch 6, 9 [http://www.questia.com/library/book/we-who-built-america-the-saga-of-the-immigrant-by-carl-wittke.jsp online edition] | | * Wittke, Carl. ''We Who Built America: The Saga of the Immigrant'' (1939), ch 6, 9 [http://www.questia.com/library/book/we-who-built-america-the-saga-of-the-immigrant-by-carl-wittke.jsp online edition] |
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| | * Engle, Stephen D. ''Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel.'' (1993). 416 pp. | | * Engle, Stephen D. ''Yankee Dutchman: The Life of Franz Sigel.'' (1993). 416 pp. |
| | * Faust, Albert Bernhardt. ''The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence'' 2 vol (1909) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-german-element-in-the-united-states-with-special-reference-to-its-political-moral-social-and-educational-influence-vol-ii-by-albert-faust-bernhardt.jsp online edition]; [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:701175 online from Harvard] | | * Faust, Albert Bernhardt. ''The German Element in the United States with Special Reference to Its Political, Moral, Social, and Educational Influence'' 2 vol (1909) [http://www.questia.com/library/book/the-german-element-in-the-united-states-with-special-reference-to-its-political-moral-social-and-educational-influence-vol-ii-by-albert-faust-bernhardt.jsp online edition]; [http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:701175 online from Harvard] |
| − | * Gross, Ruth V., ed. ''Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters'' (2006) [http://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Between-Worlds-German-American-Encounters/dp/1585444782/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207855396&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search] | + | * Gross, Ruth V., ed. ''Traveling Between Worlds: German-American Encounters'' (2006) [https://www.amazon.com/Traveling-Between-Worlds-German-American-Encounters/dp/1585444782/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207855396&sr=1-6 excerpt and text search] |
| | * Hegi, Ursula. ''Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America'' (1997). | | * Hegi, Ursula. ''Tearing the Silence: On Being German in America'' (1997). |
| | * Helbich, Wolfgang, and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. ''German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective.'' Madison: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2004. 370 pp. ISBN 978-0-924119-18-7. | | * Helbich, Wolfgang, and Walter D. Kamphoefner, eds. ''German-American Immigration and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective.'' Madison: Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, 2004. 370 pp. ISBN 978-0-924119-18-7. |
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| | * Shore, Elliott; Fones-Wolf, Ken; and Dankey, James P. ''The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940.'' (1992). 247 pp. | | * Shore, Elliott; Fones-Wolf, Ken; and Dankey, James P. ''The German-American Radical Press: The Shaping of a Left Political Culture, 1850-1940.'' (1992). 247 pp. |
| | * Tatlock, Lynne and Matt Erlin, eds. ''German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation'' (2005) | | * Tatlock, Lynne and Matt Erlin, eds. ''German Culture in Nineteenth-Century America: Reception, Adaptation, Transformation'' (2005) |
| − | * Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. ''The German-American Experience'' (2000) [http://www.amazon.com/German-American-Experience-Don-Heinrich-Tolzmann/dp/1573927317/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207853079&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] | + | * Tolzmann, Don Heinrich. ''The German-American Experience'' (2000) [https://www.amazon.com/German-American-Experience-Don-Heinrich-Tolzmann/dp/1573927317/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1207853079&sr=1-1 excerpt and text search] |
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