Over 50 million Americans claim German ancestry, which made them the largest single claimed ancestry group in the United States until 2020. As of 2023, 858,682 people in the United States speak the Ge
Anti-German sentiment obliterated the perspectives of German American citizens as being intellectuals, common folk, and prestige to being distrusted.
A 1940s-era poster discouraging the use of Italian, German, and Japanese
A pile of German textbooks from the Baraboo High School burning on a street in Baraboo, Wisconsin during an anti-German demonstration
Parking meter checker stands by his police vehicle which is imprinted with the German word for police (Polizei). It is part of the town's highlighting its German ethnic origins. New Ulm, Minnesota, July 1974.
Muhlenberg legend
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The Muhlenberg legend is an urban legend in the United States and Germany. According to the legend, the single vote of Frederick Muhlenberg, the first-ever Speaker of the US House of Representatives,
Frederick Muhlenberg, first Speaker of the US House of Representatives, who did not cast a deciding vote in 1794, 1776, or any other year, to prevent German from becoming the official language of the United States
Franz Löher, whose 1847 German book included an early version of the story