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Alger Hiss – American government official accused in 1948 of having spied for the Soviet Union in the 1930s, original surname of "Hesse" [472] Jimmy Hoffa – labor union leader and author [473] J. Edgar Hoover – first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Lena Kleinschmidt – jewel thief; Fritz Kuhn – German American ...
The resulting lack of a unified and clearly definable German-American community explains in part why only few Americans, including those of German descent, have any idea when Steuben Day or German-American Day falls, whereas the Irish St. Patrick's Day is one of America's most popular celebrations, and Columbus Day, named after the Italian ...
Americans in Germany or American Germans (German: Amerikanische Deutsche or Amerika-Deutsche [3]) refers to the American population in Germany and their German-born descendants. According to Destatis , 300,000 - 400,000 Americans live in Germany. 200,000 of them in Rhineland-Palatinate .
American people of Swiss-German descent (2 C, 89 P) Pages in category "American people of German descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 3,515 total.
Barbara Becker was born to a Black American father, Harlan Feltus, and a German mother, Ursula. Her father originally went to Europe as a lieutenant in the US medical corps, but became a successful photographer. [4] [5] [6] Her mother was a teacher. [7]
However, in March 1936, the German American Bund was established in Buffalo as a follow-up organization. [8] The Bund elected the German-born American citizen Kuhn as its leader. [9] Kuhn, while describing the Bund as "sympathetic to the Hitler government", denied that the organization received money or took orders from the government of Germany.
Westheimer was born Karola Ruth Siegel, on June 4, 1928, in the small village of Wiesenfeld (now part of Karlstadt am Main), in Germany. [6] [7] She was the only child of Orthodox Jews, Irma (née Hanauer), a housekeeper, and Julius Siegel, a notions wholesaler and son of the family for whom Irma worked. [8]
Dieter Dengler (May 22, 1938 – February 7, 2001) was a German-born United States Navy aviator who was shot down over Laos and captured during the Vietnam War.After six months of imprisonment and torture, and 23 days on the run, he became only the second captured US airman to escape during the war.