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Germany’s Sons in the US Army

Across three American wars, nearly one million German immigrants and their descendants served in the United States military while navigating questions of loyalty and identity. In World War Two, five hundred thousand German-Americans fought against Nazi Germany, with some serving as interrogators speaking fluent German to prisoners of war. During World War One, two hundred and fifty thousand served in France while anti-German hysteria swept America, banning their language and destroying their culture. In the Civil War, two hundred thousand German immigrants fought for the Union, many of them veterans of the failed eighteen forty-eight European revolutions. Sources: Luebke, Frederick C. Bonds of Loyalty: German Americans and World War I. Northern Illinois University Press, 1974. Kamphoefner, Walter D., and Wolfgang Helbich. Germans in the Civil War: The Letters They Wrote Home. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. United States Army. Camp Ritchie Military Intelligence Training Records, 1942-1945. National Archives. #uscivilwar #ww1 #ww2