German civil society leaders, including women who lived through World War II, issue a rare and urgent message to Americans. Drawing parallels to 1930s Germany, they warn that democracy can collapse ...
Except for the lederhosen, plastic boot-shaped beer-stein necklaces and the garlands of red, yellow and black triangles lining the pop-up tents, the German heritage festival could be any small-town ...
Book I: settlers and citizens -- A nation of immigrants -- Redcoats, bluecoats and turncoats -- Dreams of a Germania-in-America -- Forty-Eighters and Know-Nothings -- "I fights mit sigel" -- Carl ...