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Pages in category "German-American culture in California" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. E.
The Thomas Mann House is located in the Riviera neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, a community in the Westside of Los Angeles.During the Nazi era, some German Jews fleeing persecution and the Holocaust found refuge in California, and especially the Pacific Palisades area became a refuge and a center for German Jewish culture, and was home to many artists, writers, and intellectuals, as well as ...
Dieter Dengler – German born United States Navy Naval aviator during the Vietnam War; Hubert Dilger – decorated artillerist in the Union Army during the American Civil War; Walter Dornberger – leader of Germany's V-2 rocket program and other projects at the Peenemünde Army Research Center, brought to the U.S. under Operation Paperclip
Sponsors and private donations further help to maintain the historic property. The Villa stands as a reminder of German exile in the United States and is a memorial to German-Exile-Culture and the persecution of the German Jews. Villa Aurora is a place for cultural encounters, creative debates and joint projects.
In the 1990s, redistricting led to the election of Latino members of the city council and the first Latino members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since its inception. In 1994, California voters passed Proposition 187, which denied undocumented immigrants and their families in California welfare, health benefits, and education. [66]
California is home to Hollywood (a district of Los Angeles), the center of the American film industry, ... Dutch (1761–1762), French (1766–1767) and German (1769 ...
Presidents with maternal German ancestry include Harry Truman, whose maternal grandfather Solomon Young was a descendant of Johann Georg Jung and Hans Michael Gutknecht, who emigrated from Germany together in 1752, [215] Richard Milhous Nixon, whose maternal ancestors were Germans who anglicized Melhausen to Milhous, [216] and Barack Obama ...
California Hall, originally named Das Deutsche Haus [3] (English: The German House, sometimes also referred to in incorrect German as Das Deutsches Haus), is a historic commercial building and event venue built in 1912, located in the Polk Gulch/Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco, California. [4] It started as a German social meeting hall ...