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German Society of Pennsylvania; German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA; Germanic-American Institute; H. Harmonie Club (Detroit, Michigan) German Order of ...
The formation of the NGAA was supported by existing state and local German-American organizations, as well as the German-American press. [5] In particular, a state-level umbrella group of German-American organizations in Pennsylvania, the German-American Central Alliance of Pennsylvania (Deutsch-Amerikanischer Zentral-Bund von Pennsylvanien), founded in 1899, provided the impetus for the ...
The German-American club in Ybor City, Tampa. The German-American Club of Tampa (also known as the German-American Club, the German Club, and the Deutscher-Americaner) is a historic building that opened in 1909, serving as a community space for German, German-American, and Jewish people in Ybor City, Tampa, Florida.
The German-American Heritage Foundation was established as the United German-American Committee of the USA in 1977. [ 1 ] Each year since President Ronald Reagan first declared October 6 German-American Day in 1987, GAHFUSA has petitioned the White House , United States Congress , and state and local governments to issue national and statewide ...
Internment of German resident aliens and German-American citizens occurred in the United States during the periods of World War I and World War II. During World War II, the legal basis for this detention was under Presidential Proclamation 2526 , made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act .
The German-American Journal is the official newsletter of DANK, published bimonthly. At the start of DANK in 1959 it was six pages, issued every three weeks, and written almost entirely in German. As of 2011, the paper was 16 pages and written primarily in English, with articles in German often accompanied by an English translation or summary.
Questions of German American loyalty increased due to events like the German bombing of Black Tom island [98] and the U.S. entering World War I, many German Americans were arrested for refusing allegiance to the U.S. [99] War hysteria led to the removal of German names in public, names of things such as streets, [100] and businesses. [101]
The Friends of New Germany was led by Spanknöbel and was openly pro-Hitler, and engaged in activities such as storming the German language newspaper New Yorker Staats-Zeitung with the demand that Nazi-sympathetic articles be published, the infiltration of other German-American organizations, and the use of propaganda to counter the boycott of ...