#german immigrants

[eopederson]

Iglesia de madera, Puerto Varas, Chile, 2022.

The areas around Puerto Varas were settled by immigrants from what is now Germany, and this church, like many of the buildings in the town, is in a style more like that of Germany than of Latin America. Wood was abundant locally, and thus this church, like most houses and many other buildings, was constructed of wood.

[juhnkit]

My Great Grandpa Fred (1959)

Bilingual (English & German)

1st Born American from German Immigrants.

Traverse City Michigan

Worked for The Traverse City Record Eagle (1949-1977)

[babyspacebatclone]

He’s the child of German people who lived through the Second World War.

My maternal great-grandparents put an ad for their daughter as a mail order bride in order to get out of the country before the Wall.

Didn’t think of asking her first.

Which side did you get your autism from and why is it your undiagnosed dad’s side?

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

A German woman 🇩🇪 who went to live in Kenya and became the mother of 2 beautiful mixed babies, she is very happy with her Kenyan husband 🇰🇪 and does not think about returning to Germany

[the-light-of-stars]

German ministry of defence considers 'fixing' the shortage in military personnel by tying military service to getting german citizenship more quickly for immigrants without a german passport

"To fix the personnel shortage in the federal army Minister of Defence Boris Pistorius can imagine to also hire soldiers without a german passport. He's getting support for this suggestion both from defence politicians of the government coalition as well as from the opposition.

"Basically we need to think far more european when looking for able young people that are ready to serve in the federal army" the president of the defence committee in parliament, Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) told the "Rheinische Post".

This also includes the idea "that soldiers without a german passport can get one faster by successfully serving in the german federal army."

yeah this is definitely not gonna lead to immigrants being used as cannon fodder at all, certainly.

[whatareyoureallyafraidof]

First they'll come for the Puerto Ricans. Then they'll come for the immigrants. Then they'll come for the Muslims. Then they'll come for the Jews. Then they'll come for you!

[mchiti]

today on the football racist agenda we have tony kroos saying he doesn't feel comfortable letting his daughter go out in Germany because it's not the country it was 10 years ago and there are too many migrants. in the very same days where players from the french national team are going through a shitstorm for advocating against the alt right. Right after Germany nt started the tournament with a beautiful letter form Gundogan expressing his pride of being the first german captain with a migrant background. Weeks after both Nagelsmann and Kimmich had to stood up and called a "survey" asking germans if they wanted more whites in the nt ugly and racist.

okay fucker, thank you for the contribution.

[diemelusine]

Abschied der Auswanderer (Emigrant's Farewell) (1860) by Antonie Volkmar. Deutsches Historisches Museum.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Three of the German brides of doughboys of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF), with their Yankee babies, arriving in New York on the transport Sherman to make their homes in the U.S., September 11, 1920. Left to right: Mrs. Z. Sanlick; Mrs. A.J. Dininger, and Mrs. F.M. Christnacht.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[pigeons-with-jello]

born to say [ɒ]chivist, forced to say [ɑː]rchivist (im american)

[tanadrin]

Der Spiegel has an article talking about whether the AfD should be banned outright, and it's like... I don't think you can ban a party that is currently polling at almost a quarter of the electorate for extremism, and pretend that you can just keep conducting politics as normal after that! They have like a third of the seats in the Saxon Landtag! Purely aside from the civil libertarian concerns (which are grave), your political leadership has clearly failed on a massive scale if your only response to that kind of reactionary wave in your politics is to ban the bad guys, and then pretend like mainstream politics is fine and nothing needs to change.

(And no, the answer is not, as Scholz and others seem to believe, to try to outflank them by becoming similarly reactionary on key issues like immigration. There are in fact options besides "ban the reactionaries" and "become the reactionaries"! But those other options might require confronting why the biggest parties in German politics are so sclerotic, and why people are so dissatisfied with them in the first place.)

[5eyed]

yayo! (real name: yolanda). shes xeress crush. i want to give her some tattoos or piercings but i couldnt think of good ones yet..

[meraarts]

One advantage of having native English speaker friends is that they think being bilingual is super impressive. Mention you’re busy learning your *gasp* third language and they go wild

[troythecatfish]

Here’s some of my personal favorites comments:

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

That's beautiful, she's pregnant

Germany 🇩🇪

❤️

Tanzania 🇹🇿