how badly were they treated?
how were their houses vandalized?
Name a few things German-Americans went through during ww1?
My German-speaking grandparents basically said to all the children, etc. -- "No German spoken in this house!" No one seems to recall anyone saying anything about any abuse. In the area we lived in, immigrants from Germany were numerous and were valued for their work ethic and skills. (central Illinois)....and, you might say, people of European background were not as likely to exhibit bigotry toward Germans -- Irish, maybe, or Polish, but not Germans.
During WWII, note that no one questioned German heritage people's loyalty, yet, almost everyone agreed that Japanese-Americans should be put in concentration camps and their property stolen. Odd, that.
Reply:they went through a LOT of discrimination thank to guilt by association. think of how it is now for arabs who come here, don't have a problem with jews and wish they had a democracy like we have.
Reply:They were basically hated for thier German heritage. In schools, German as a language was not allowed to be taught. German books were banned from libraries. Foods such as frankfurters were known as "liberty dogs" and suaerkraut was called "liberty cabbage".
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