#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)

[spotamus]

So you think you have a hard life?My grandfather was bitten by a rattler and was taken by horse and wagon miles away to a Dr. in New Underwood South Dakota.

My grandparents little house on the prairie.Pennington County, South Dakota,1910.

[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.

[henryshakesmear]

Hi, this is for those who still think comparing Trump to Hitler is hysterical and overly dramatic.

Project 2025, which Trump claims not to be associated with, but on which many close associates of his worked, details a plan to mobilize several forces like the National Guard and local police and sheriffs to "go around the country arresting illegal immigrants in large-scale raids".

The immigrants would then be taken to "large-scale staging grounds near the border, most likely in Texas" to be held in internment camps (a sort of prison for people who haven't been charged with a crime) before deportation.

(I'm citing this almost directly from the Wikipedia page about Project 2025, in the section "Policies" under "Immigration reforms", second to last paragraph.)

In shorter words: Raids to collect immigrants and place them in prison-like camps without a criminal charge. Let's employ a little pattern recognition and see that this is EXCEEDINGLY SIMILAR to the Reichspogromnacht in the night of the 9th November 1938.

In this night, an assassination attempt on a German diplomat in Paris (Ernst vom Rath) by a young polish Jew (Herschel Grynszpan) two days before was used as an excuse to stage a raid on jewish property by the German SA forces. Synagogues were burnt down, jewish property was destroyed and jewish people were detained, abused, raped and killed.

About 26.000 jewish men and teenagers were taken to concentration camps in Buchenwald, Dachau and Sachsenhausen. Many of them died following abuse in these camps, they were forced to give up their property and most were only set free after agreeing to migrate to other countries.

Afterwards, jewish organizations were forcibly disbanded, jewish press was forbidden, jewish people were no longer allowed to pursue trades and crafts, or own businesses. And obviously the discriminatory laws against jewish people only increased further.

(Information taken from the website of the state headquarters for political education Baden-Württemberg. The site is in German.)

TL; DR In both cases, people are forcibly detained without charges and placed in camps to be forced to migrate/ be deported. Are you seeing what I'm seeing??

As a German, do not repeat our mistakes and do not let yourself be radicalized into committing another Holocaust. Yes, it is exactly as bad as we're making it sound and we're being loud about it to prevent another eleven million people being killed systematically by a faschist government and its ignorant people.

[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.

[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

[africanrefugeeswelcome]

Germany🇩🇪 + Tanzania🇹🇿

[troythecatfish]

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