After the failed Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, many of the people who participated in it immigrated to the US, where their more radical liberal and socialist ideals influenced the German American community towards abolitionism.
The German American Bund was an American Nazi organization that supported Nazi Germany and showed this through large demonstrations, intimidation and ethnic violence. They were a small minority among German Americans and basically ceased to exist after the US entered WW2
thelewbear87 on
For anyone wondering who the Forty-eighter were, they where the people who left what is now Germany after the 1848 revolutions failed. They where a mix of liberals and leftist, so that is why you had socialist winning election in places like Milwaukee.
nonlawyer on
I feel like Nancy Pelosi taking a performative knee is almost insulting to the level of based that the 48ers brought to America
> The 32nd saw action at Shiloh on the second day, during which [Col. Willich](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Willich) displayed great leadership. When his troops became unsteady under fire, he stood before them, his back to the enemy, and conducted the regiment through the manual of arms. He had the regimental band play “La Marseillaise”, the anthem for all republican movements in Europe. Recovering its stability, the 32nd launched a bayonet attack.
Willich also challenged Karl Marx to a duel for not being communist enough, which is objectively hilarious
Beneficial_Ball9893 on
There are different types of racism. We in our modern era are so far removed from the racism of the 20th and 19th centuries that they have blended together in our minds, but Nazis and the KKK absolutely fucking hated each other.
FAM0U2chickenwing on
Christoph Waltz plays a version of both of these characters
Capable-Sock-7410 on
German Americans are the single largest ethnic group in the USA
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After the failed Revolutions of 1848 in Germany, many of the people who participated in it immigrated to the US, where their more radical liberal and socialist ideals influenced the German American community towards abolitionism.
The German American Bund was an American Nazi organization that supported Nazi Germany and showed this through large demonstrations, intimidation and ethnic violence. They were a small minority among German Americans and basically ceased to exist after the US entered WW2
For anyone wondering who the Forty-eighter were, they where the people who left what is now Germany after the 1848 revolutions failed. They where a mix of liberals and leftist, so that is why you had socialist winning election in places like Milwaukee.
I feel like Nancy Pelosi taking a performative knee is almost insulting to the level of based that the 48ers brought to America
> The 32nd saw action at Shiloh on the second day, during which [Col. Willich](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Willich) displayed great leadership. When his troops became unsteady under fire, he stood before them, his back to the enemy, and conducted the regiment through the manual of arms. He had the regimental band play “La Marseillaise”, the anthem for all republican movements in Europe. Recovering its stability, the 32nd launched a bayonet attack.
Willich also challenged Karl Marx to a duel for not being communist enough, which is objectively hilarious
There are different types of racism. We in our modern era are so far removed from the racism of the 20th and 19th centuries that they have blended together in our minds, but Nazis and the KKK absolutely fucking hated each other.
Christoph Waltz plays a version of both of these characters
German Americans are the single largest ethnic group in the USA
It makes sense they’d have factions