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When I was in the 8th grade, about 13, I told the teacher I wanted to be German when I grew up🍻 Then I found out my great grandmother and grandfather were polish immigrants. 🤣🍻💕 love you channel, I don't think my mom was too happy with me when I told her but I didn't care
I found the part about the ethnic churches interesting. My mom, who grew in Wilkes-Barre, PA, talked about going exclusively to the German church, she didn't go to the Polish church or the Italian church.
The Germans have always been very industrious, entrepreneurial, intellectual and innovative. Their contribution to human civilisation and progress has been hugely underestimated. I recommend reading the book, 'The German Genius'.
and the same with the Chinese, the first immigrants from Guangzhou arrived in San Francisco in 1785 as crewmen - starting the history of immigration to the United States, not to take away from the Germans in any way
Hi Ray, the German-American Heritage Foundation here. It's great to hear from a German American right here in Washington, DC. Please do stop by if you have the chance. We're located at 719 6th Street NW.
Liebe Feli from Germany, riesengroßen Respekt für diesen Clip. Das ist mit Abstand das wertigste und wichtigste was du bisher produziert und gepostet hast. Gratulation dafür und danke für diese Perspektive. Supergut! LG
My 6x Great grandfather immigrated from Germany to the US, 9 months later in July he volunteered to fight in the American Revolution, 4 months later he died of sickness from cold after George Washingtons New York campaign. Guy was only here for about a year before he died in Coryells Ferry (New Hope) along the Delaware 1 month before the Army crossed the Delaware there while Washington crossed more east. His son's lived on, one an officer and one enlisted in the Continental Army.
Thank you for the wonderful adventure in Washington DC. I am a 63 year old man born in America to German Immigrants, I have always been proud of my German heritage but I must say that my pride has grown after watching you video. Thank you!
I am American of German descent, born and raised in Virginia, in the shadow of Washington, DC. My father's grandfather and grandmother were born and raised in Bussfeld, a tiny town near Giesen in the state of Hesse. He (and she) came to America as a married couple in their early 20s to escape being drafted into the German army under Kaisar Wilhelm in the early 1870s, I was told. He brought his trade with him to America, which was butchering and then selling various cuts of meat (he was a Fleischhauer, after all.) I really enjoy your videos, and they are always very well done and interesting to me. Thank you for your hard work and good efforts in this media! --Thomas Fleischhauer
@T Fleischhauer Understandable, that he left. 1870-1871 was the French-Prussian/German war. The French invaded Prussia/Germany because the two Monarchs couldn't agree on who/which prince will be on the Spanish throne. Greetings from Germany and a happy New Year 😉
Feli, as a German-American from Milwaukee, I am thoroughly enjoying your videos. When I was going to Gymnasium in Braunschweig, our history teacher said that Coca-Cola created Santa Claus as we see him today. Boy, was he wrong! Vielen herzlichen Dank für alle tolle Videos!
I would like to see Feli visit Milwaukee and talk about its strong Germanic roots. I lived there for a few years during college in the 1980s and was always super impressed by the city hall building, that looked like something out of Hamburg. It's one of the most beautiful and impressive buildings I've ever seen, especially at night all lit up and soaring into the sky.
I have German heritage on both sides of my family. It was Waltrip (Waldtripp) on my Dad's side and Utterback (Otterbruch) on my Mother's side. There are a lot of German people in this part of the midwest. I believe both families were from Bavaria.
Oh my god, your report is so professional, it could run on Germanys national TV :-) Excellent work Feli! I love your work! Keep on doing what you're doing! Also exceptionally good researched!
Feli thank you for the German history of the Washington DC area. I love how you show such pride, love and interest of your German heritage. Keep up the great work on your videos.
I actually learned a lot I hadn’t known. Also helped me to understand why my grandma, who’s parents had both emigrated from Germany with their families, and who’s first language was German, always claimed not to know it, and didn’t really talk about being German. She was born right after World War I and was married to a WWII veteran who loved to tease her by saying ich liebe dich, knowing she would be annoyed.
This was a special treat for us! My wife and I grew up just 10 miles from the Capital Dome. I in MD, and she in VA. Both of us are of strong German descent. My ancestor came to U.S. from Germany and was one of General Washington's close Lieutenants during the Revolutionary War. We toured Washington, D.C. thoroughly during our growing up years there but never heard about all the German connections and influence in this great city. Thank you for this amazing video. We are truly grateful to you for this video and will be sharing with our family. Hope to see more like this and the one on Chicago. Bill and Jackie Feeser ~ come and see us in far northern CA near Mt. Shasta!
@𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 @𝐹𝑒𝑙𝑖_𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚_𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 hope you read my comment. BTW love so much your Advent calendar readings. Watched everyone. A great tradition from my childhood. Should send them to my friends in Wittenberg. We did a Rhine cruise 2 years ago and toured Luther's Cities and Berlin and Munich 10 years ago. Love your native country. Our family are from the Baden-Wurttemberg area. Will be watching for more wonderful videos. They just keep getting better. Bill in far N. California.
Great story and well done! I grew up in Baltimore Maryland but live now in Washington State. I am of Germany heritage on my mother side, our family immigrated to Baltimore in 1860. I didn't know many of the facts you discussed, a real learning experience. Thank you!
I knew about some of this, but also learned a lot of new things I did not know. Thank you, Feli. And thanks to your German heritage for all that you have contributed to our great country. I wish a very Merry Christmas to you and Ben.
Hallo Feli, as a half German/half American here and I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you posting this video and doing the in-depth research and interviews that really bring this vid to life! So many Americans have no idea how German America actually is and that English is Anglisch [from the Anglo in Anglo-Saxons] and just how much Germans have contributed to both the U.S. and the world including the "English" they speak today - Vielen Danke!
Thanks Feli! I am a third generation Washingtonian and while I have learned through relatives a lot of historical information, you have further enlightened me! Places and buildings have always fascinated me. Thank you for gleaning new details and data. I can't wait to further investigate them.
I'd suggest 'The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C.' by David Ovason Other than just Masonic stuff it has alot of interesting information. 😂 At first the Masons denied some of his claims than they hired him as their historian.
Feli, great presentation! Always fascinating. After arriving in the US in 1865 my grandfather did not Anglicize his name. He just let people pronounce it anyway they wanted to. It worked. Most of the results didn't sound anything like German. Two generations later we are still trying to sort this out.
What is your name? Butzow? That sounds very Slavic tbh but there is a municipality called Butzow way in the East of Germany close to our border to Poland. Might your grandfather have been from Upper Silesia or another very Eastern territory of Germany which perhaps isn’t even part of modern Germany anymore? A lot of the people who lived there were really Germanized Slavs. They were definitely well-integrated into German (or at the time really Prussian) society so I would definitely still consider them fully German but they had become German more recently and their Slavic roots still show to this day in their last names for example. Some of them from very Eastern territories that now belong to Russia and were forced to emigrate back to the now smaller German mainland after the war are still considered “Russlanddeutsche” and culturally distinct to this day. I’m not trying to tell you that your grandpa wasn’t German because Germanized Slavs definitely were German too and a lot of modern Germans have some Slavic ancestry (I’m as German as it gets but I think I might very well have some Slavic ancestry due to the fact that my grandma has roots in those slightly Eastern former territories with lots of Germanized Slavs). But I am wondering, that given your last name (if it is “Butzow”) which to be honest doesn’t sound very Germanic at all, your grandfather has similar roots.
Thank you. I'm going to work on pronouncing my name correctly. Even so, I suspect most people around here will still pronounce the first syllable like the English language word "but". I hope you had a wonderful Christmas in Hamburg. I find it hard to believe that it has been almost 30 years since I was there.
@@lenn939 Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to tell me about my possible heritage. I know the town of Butzow is a few miles south of Rostock. There has been some debate in our family as to whether the town was named for a distant ancestor or a distant ancestor took our name from the town. It's my understanding that this part of the world has had large numbers of various peoples invade or immigrate over the centuries. I suspect my genetics come from all over the place. Thanks again for taking the time to fill me in.
How fascinating to. As a German-American who has lived in and worked in DC, I didn’t know any of this. Although I have retired to Pennsylvania, my son and his family live nearby in Virginia. You can be assured that we all are going to visit these sites in the Spring. Thanks so much for making this video. You have provided a great service to those German-Americans whose families have totally assimilated and have lost touch with our G-A heritage.
Fascinating educational history tour, Feli! I hope you can cover the German roots of Philadelphia. Years ago, research led me to learn that my Mexican mother had an 48'er Saxon ancestor, Ernst Karl Schaefer, who founded 2 German book publishing firms, first in Leipzig ,1844, and later in Philadelphia, 1848. The Horner library at the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philly preserves many German publishers' books and is a must see place. The younger brother, Moritz Schäfer, continued operations at the former publishing house which evolved into a water milling technical "verlag" which still bears his name to this day, almost 180 years ago. WWII destroyed the Leipzig book house, after which it moved west to Detmold, Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Also interesting! Many American breweries like Miller, Budweiser or Yuengling have German founders. The German television station SWR dedicated a documentary to this called "Beer Pioneers".
This was an Amazing video! Well done and great Job Feli! I learned alot in this video. My Hometown of Bethlehem Pennsylvania and our entire region of Pennsylvania was founded by Moravian Germans in the early 18th century. Before we were even a nation, Germans were impacting the future of the U.S. Some of these settlements go as far back as the 17th century. It goes without saying the long and deep roots of Germans in the U.S., and the astronomical impact they had on this nation.
@𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗶_𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺_𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 I will check that book out. It looks like a great read! I am sure that book only touches the tip of thr iceberg! I know most of the steel mills in Pennsylvania and Ohio were built by German immigrants with German technology. Most of the chemical processes were advanced for their time, and brought to the U.S. by Germans. I only learned alot of this in the past 2 years of the wide range of German History in yhe U.S. I knew basics, but not to this knowledge. this is what lead me to your videos! If not for the Christian identity of German Americans, they would of lost all contact with the German historical past. Now we, including myself are learning all types of new things from the Ethnic side, as opposed to just the Church side!
As always, well worth the wait! The effort you put in and the professionalism is just astounding! Keep up the excellent work, Feli and Ben! Have a Merry Christmas and a good slide! 🙂
Great and very informative video. I was born in Washington, DC in 1950, and except for four years in college and two in the US Army have lived in Northern Virginia just across the Potomac River. I have been to the German-American Heritage Foundation, but did not know of the "bigger picture" of past history. On my father's side I am of German Heritage. He and my mother came from Louisville, Kentucky.
Sehr schönes Video, brachte viele Erinnerungen an meine Zeit in DC in den 1990s. Ich hoffe Du ( und Ben) wurde anständig vergütet von der Botschaft. Solche Infos zusammenzustellen und zu präsentieren ist eigentlich deren Aufgabe…Frohes Fest
Wonderful tour and historical rendition of our German heritage in Washington DC. As always Feli, you put a lot of time and effort into your podcasts. Keep up the great work and the best to you and yours.
Feli: well done! Very polished and professional. You’re such a talent. Thank you for connecting me with my German roots (even though those roots are small). Again thank you!
You have to do PA and NYC too. There is a huge German history here in NYC but also PA, obviously, so much to talk about there. Also, a history of Germany in the 18th and 19th century about how the colleges and technology that were the upper echelon of Europe (and the US) was not England but Germany. The story about the patented industrial garment dyes is fascinating! Oh and the Hessian soldiers brought here by the British to fight for them in the American Revolution.
You mean the Hessians who were captured by the Colonial Army, were held prisoner, and defected so they didn’t get sent back to Germany where they would’ve been hung? One of my ancestors was one of those Hessian soldiers. I’d prefer that Feli not try to cover PA German history b/c even the PA German Cultural Center can’t get it right, so she won’t either. Leave us out of it. Sincerely, a 9th generation PA German; my 7th great grandfather was a settler from Bavaria, and would be considered German-Pennsylvanian not PA German.
Feli, I have been watching your videos for the past few years and this one demonstrates why you should be a major network presenter/producer. The production quality as well as your ability as an interviewer/presenter is excellent. I hope that news web sites/TV stations such as DW, BBC and CNN see what you have done here. Danke, Don
This was a really cool video! My grandfather was born in the US in North Dakota but ethnically he was 100% german. The community he grew up in still had a lot of german speakers and he actually grew up speaking both German and English. His family came from South Russia and was part of the Black Sea Germans (Schwarzmeerdeutsche) that immigrated there in the early 1800s. I took four years of German in high school so all I know is Hochdeutsch, but man, I really wish he had lived long enough for me to know what his dialect sounded like and how different it was from Standard German.
My surname German ancestor was married in Washington D.C. to another German before moving to Philadelphia. In the 1850 census he was listed as a Mathematical Instrument Maker which his son and grandson also did. I always wondered why he was married in D.C. in 1834. I now have more questions to be answered but thank you so much for your video.
Beeing a RUclipsr myself I can only imagine how much work and research went into this video. I watched it from start to finish and I really learned a lot.I am a German myself and I send you many greetings from Germany ❤❤.
Wow Feli, this was really impressive. Some things I knew and some others I wasn't aware of. Time just flew by while watching it. Shoutout also to Ben for his work behind the camera. I'm pretty sure that this will also become a welcomed source for American students interested in US history. It's unimaginable how much time and effort you put in this collaboration with the officials and your own research. Merry Christmas and happy holidays from LK Dachau or from Markt Indersdorf to be exact.
Great video as always, Feli! So many interesting facts which were completely new to me. Happy holidays to you, Ben and your families! Greetings from Germany
Seriously, Feli- Thank you! While I have always been proud of my German heritage and knew some of the history (for example, I've known many family St. Nicholas Night and Christmas traditions came from Germany), it is only after coming across your videos a couple of years ago that I really got serious about it. Obviously I've been entertained by your postings, but these more serious cultural pieces have been very important. I've recently been tracing family history, which is difficult when it comes to where exactly someone was from, since places had similar names and of course "Germany" itself did not yet exist. I've found that my G-G-Grandfather came over to Milwaukee in 1861, but I've had trouble finding his father's birthplace (around 1832). This fall my Dad beat his second different cancer. Because of all the challenges various family members have fought through, I've had shirts made for everyone this Christmas saying "Eichstädt Unverwüstlich": an older spelling of our name, and the German word for 'resilient' or 'unbreakable' (I hope). And thanks to one of your earlier postings, I know exactly how to pronounce the "v" and "w" 🙂 Again, thank you for making me more German. Fröhliche Weihnachten!
@Ron Eichstätt Your translation of "unverwüstlich" are both correct !! Greetings from Germany and a happy New Year 😉 Add on: could it be, that your g-g-g-grandfather was born (about 1832) in Germany? There is the "Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven/immigration house/Museum Bremerhaven", where all of the about 7,5 million immigrants, which left the European Continent, are registered. Good luck with that !!
@@FelifromGermany An American of German descent through 3 of his 4 grandparents was Donald Trump. Please take him back!!!!! His great grandfather moved here to evade the draft in the state of Germany he left. Just like Donald in the 1960's
Very interesting. Ohio has some German history also. I attended the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus. It is a seminary that was established to educate German speaking students to become priests. It originated as an orphanage in Pomeroy, Ohio, moved to downtown Columbus and then in 1930 built the current campus north of Worthington. I am sure they would share their history with you. I attend 4 years of high school and a year of college and had yo take courses in German Spanis, and Ancient Greek. I married a girl who emigrated on her own to USA.
Love your videos - thank you! You mentioned that the sculpture at the National Archives was done by Adolph Weinman. Although most people probably aren’t familiar with Weinman’s name, many would instantly recognize his most famous works: he designed two of the most beautiful and iconic US coins, the Mercury dime and Walking Liberty half dollar, produced from 1916 to the 1940s. The Walking Liberty motif is still used on the American Eagle silver bullion coin. Another German immigrant, Felix Schlag, designed the Jefferson nickel.
Merry Christmas to all of you and yours. I love this. As I come from Germans myself, some names here I've heard mentioned in my family. I'm only 90 mins from DC, I see a history day trip in my not so distant future, not to mention German Market. Thank you for putting all this info together.
Thank you for another great video. I learned a lot from it. In addition to the great content and research, I was especially impressed by the great production values, especially lighting and audio coverage and synch. Your channel is a model of how to do it right. 🙂
Thanks for your video on Washington DC. I definitely remember hearing the church bell from the church you visited when I was at my Grandmothers house in the 80s and 90s.
As a DC area resident, I loved this episode. It belongs on PBS. I have PA Dutch heritage on my mother's side, so I enjoyed your videos on PA Dutch German language. Oh, my wife is from Switzerland, so i also enjoyed your video on Swiss German as well. I guess all these reasons are why i enjoy your channel 😂. Keep up the excellent work! I would love to see another history lesson video on Philadelphia and eastern PA/NJ.
A few years ago, I visited Luray Caverns in Central Virginia. I was amazed that in the local museum, most books from the XIX Century are written in German. I also learned that in the Civil War, some units on both sides received their commands in German, too.
Although many of my ancestor from Germany came to the US to avoid conscription they did fight on the Union side in the US Civil. There were many all-German units. The brother of my gggrandfather was in an all-German unit from my county in Wisconsin. We also had Norwegian units.from that area. A great great uncle of my late wife graduated from the Lutheran seminary at Gettysburg two weeks before the famous battle there. He was later the pastor of the largest Lutheran and German-speaking church in NYC.
This was great! If you ever look into doing a similar one for New York, be sure to read about the General Slocum disaster. It helped to wipe out Manhattan’s Little Germany neighborhood prior to WWI. My great grandfather was on board with his mother and baby sister. He survived, but they did not.
The frescoes in the U.S. Capitol building were repaired in the 1950s, by LUDWIG KOENNEL, who had come from Saarbrucken to DC in the 1920s, and worked as a housepainter, who also painted beautiful pictures in his spare time.
Feli, you should visit Germantown (part of Philly) and Valley Forge. Several of the signs in Valley Forge are in both English and German. Also, the Reading Liendenkranz is a short drive away. Many think they have the best Octoberfest in the USA.
We anglicized our family surname when we immigrated from Siegen, Germany, to northwestern Ohio. We’re the George family now, but our surname was originally Georg.
Thank you Feli. That was so interesting. So many facts I didn't know about the German heritage in the US. I hope sometime you can do a video about Pennsylvania German heritage. Where I grew up in PA. half the people had a German background. Stay well and Happy New Year.
Very interesting and well-researched, so I dug out my grandmother's wedding "document" (a fancy large holy-card style picture in a frame). My grandfather's name is listed as Franz, though he was known as Frank. The text portion is in German, dated 1911 (this was in rural Wisconsin). And that book burning photo was from Baraboo, Wisconsin, which is not too far from here (Milwaukee).
Amazing facts I didn’t know about and love how detailed and well thought out this is ❤ keep up this amazing work and hopefully find more interesting facts , happy holidays ✨🙂
Thank you for this great video. I'm proud to hear that the guy who did the frescoes in the capital building came from the same state that my great-grandfather came.
The idea of Washington having 20-30k people at it's height at one point is amazing to me. I live in a relatively small city of 25k people in the middle of the US. It's just so little.
Hi Feli, fantastic video. I lived and worked in DC for more than 20 years, and I knew most of this, except for the Friendship Garden! I am familiar with the heritage foundation and the museum, as I worked for the American Association of Museums for a long time. It is good to spread the word about German influences on the USA. On a personal note, my heritage is half English and half German (Mayer and Bruns families.) Now I have returned to the homeland and live in Rhineland Palatinate, where I teach English. And try to understand Pfälzisch. 😆
Feli, I learned so much!! Thank you. I live in Washington DC and I'm one of those many Americans with German ancestry -- but this was amazing. I learned so many fascinating things !!
Enjoyed this video very much Feli! Thank you for doing this and I would really enjoy a review of our National Parks: Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc and the German American contributions to making these natural treasures happen.
All of my fathers family is of German Descent, and my last name is angolized. My mothers grandma grew up in a German household in North Dakota(Her parents were Black Sea German, and immigrated to the states in 1905/1902 because of what was happening to fellow Germans, they went to the Russian Empire in 1815 from Baden Württemberg). I consider myself German and not apart of the “Old County”(Russian Empire). And my friends exchange student is from Germany. Merry Christmas from a Suburb of Columbus Ohio!
Thanks for this valuable history lesson, Feli! My grandparents left Westphalia in the mid-1920s and headed straight to California where I am now. They would have loved your program and felt very proud... as do I!
Thank you Feli. Really enjoyed the video as a German-American and huge fan of Washington DC spending yearly vacations there to enjoy its vast history. I learned a lot and will find new parts to visit.
Vielen danke für einen schoen historische video. Ich hoffe ich habe alles richtig schrieben. I am not american nor german, but portuguese, pretty passionate about History and foreign languages and it's a pleasure watching your channel. It's amazing to discover all these stories and facts, and to understand how german people had such a huge influence in the USA, it's just sad that so much was lost along the way with all the nonsense after WW I...
god damn feli . this is insanely high quality this looks more like a professional documentary than a youtube video!! very well done! keep up the good work! ive been subbed for a long time, and this next level!
Hallo servus Feli! Very well done with loads of information and supplements. A most worthy addition to your RUclips channel offerings! I learned a lot. Thank you very much, and congratulations to you on the fine production. 😊
A good video Feli it's like a small documentary. What the historian said in the church is interesting and describes very well where the interests of the German-Americans lay and how they built their lives in the new world. So many artists, scientists and especially entrepreneurs. Years ago I saw a documentary about the gold rush in America and while most of the gold seekers from all over the world went to dig, many Germans did what they do best, opened a business or offered their services (profession). And now guess where all the gold ended up ;-). Merry Christmas
Did you know these things bout Washington DC? :) If not, which part did you find the most interesting? 🧐
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I liked the part about Lincoln best. That was utterly new to me!
When I was in the 8th grade, about 13, I told the teacher I wanted to be German when I grew up🍻 Then I found out my great grandmother and grandfather were polish immigrants. 🤣🍻💕 love you channel, I don't think my mom was too happy with me when I told her but I didn't care
I knew a lot of them. Nice to have you in my neck of the woods. Now you’re back in my brothers territory in Cincinnati
I found the part about the ethnic churches interesting. My mom, who grew in Wilkes-Barre, PA, talked about going exclusively to the German church, she didn't go to the Polish church or the Italian church.
Interesting. I bought the book.
The Germans have always been very industrious, entrepreneurial, intellectual and innovative. Their contribution to human civilisation and progress has been hugely underestimated. I recommend reading the book, 'The German Genius'.
Although they need to digitalize their society more. Digitalisierung is a big issue in Germany. I love Germany but they need to do more on that front.
and the same with the Chinese, the first immigrants from Guangzhou arrived in San Francisco in 1785 as crewmen - starting the history of immigration to the United States, not to take away from the Germans in any way
@@dogman-fx9ub Be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.
Read Mien Kamph.
@@josueveguilla9069 Are you seriously implying they'll go Nazi again? Germany has long changed.
As a German American from DC, I really appreciate this video! Sending it to my whole German American Washingtonian family! Thanks for great content!
Hi Ray, the German-American Heritage Foundation here. It's great to hear from a German American right here in Washington, DC. Please do stop by if you have the chance. We're located at 719 6th Street NW.
When my family first came to USA from Germany, all I spoke was German. It was quite the struggle for me to learn to speak English in 1957.
English would be a hard language to learn! I took 2 years of German in high school! German- Swiss American here! 🤗🌲🌄🌲🇩🇪🇨🇭🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲
I heard it's easier for Germans to learn English than vice versa.
Toll, und wie geht's?
It's obvious that you enjoyed that visit. You're an amazing ambassador to your country.
True 👍👍
Liebe Feli from Germany,
riesengroßen Respekt für diesen Clip.
Das ist mit Abstand das wertigste und wichtigste was du bisher produziert und gepostet hast.
Gratulation dafür und danke für diese Perspektive. Supergut!
LG
Phantastic! I am German and live all over the US for 30 years. Lots of new info for me here. Thanks!
My 6x Great grandfather immigrated from Germany to the US, 9 months later in July he volunteered to fight in the American Revolution, 4 months later he died of sickness from cold after George Washingtons New York campaign. Guy was only here for about a year before he died in Coryells Ferry (New Hope) along the Delaware 1 month before the Army crossed the Delaware there while Washington crossed more east. His son's lived on, one an officer and one enlisted in the Continental Army.
Thank you for the wonderful adventure in Washington DC. I am a 63 year old man born in America to German Immigrants, I have always been proud of my German heritage but I must say that my pride has grown after watching you video. Thank you!
I am American of German descent, born and raised in Virginia, in the shadow of Washington, DC. My father's grandfather and grandmother were born and raised in Bussfeld, a tiny town near Giesen in the state of Hesse. He (and she) came to America as a married couple in their early 20s to escape being drafted into the German army under Kaisar Wilhelm in the early 1870s, I was told. He brought his trade with him to America, which was butchering and then selling various cuts of meat (he was a Fleischhauer, after all.) I really enjoy your videos, and they are always very well done and interesting to me. Thank you for your hard work and good efforts in this media! --Thomas Fleischhauer
@T Fleischhauer
Understandable, that he left.
1870-1871 was the French-Prussian/German war. The French invaded Prussia/Germany because the two Monarchs couldn't agree on who/which prince will be on the Spanish throne.
Greetings from Germany and a happy New Year 😉
Feli, as a German-American from Milwaukee, I am thoroughly enjoying your videos. When I was going to Gymnasium in Braunschweig, our history teacher said that Coca-Cola created Santa Claus as we see him today. Boy, was he wrong! Vielen herzlichen Dank für alle tolle Videos!
I'm shocked because I live in Braunschweig and never read the name here on YT xD
I would like to see Feli visit Milwaukee and talk about its strong Germanic roots. I lived there for a few years during college in the 1980s and was always super impressed by the city hall building, that looked like something out of Hamburg. It's one of the most beautiful and impressive buildings I've ever seen, especially at night all lit up and soaring into the sky.
Milwaukee looks like a German city and lots of German-Americans live there including me
@@andrewjones4774 Probably the most German place in the states if you ask me.
I have German heritage on both sides of my family. It was Waltrip (Waldtripp) on my Dad's side and Utterback (Otterbruch) on my Mother's side. There are a lot of German people in this part of the midwest. I believe both families were from Bavaria.
Oh my god, your report is so professional, it could run on Germanys national TV :-) Excellent work Feli! I love your work! Keep on doing what you're doing! Also exceptionally good researched!
Feli thank you for the German history of the Washington DC area. I love how you show such pride, love and interest of your German heritage. Keep up the great work on your videos.
I actually learned a lot I hadn’t known. Also helped me to understand why my grandma, who’s parents had both emigrated from Germany with their families, and who’s first language was German, always claimed not to know it, and didn’t really talk about being German. She was born right after World War I and was married to a WWII veteran who loved to tease her by saying ich liebe dich, knowing she would be annoyed.
born and raised in dc, and of german heritage, i learned a lot from this. thank you!
This was a special treat for us! My wife and I grew up just 10 miles from the Capital Dome. I in MD, and she in VA. Both of us are of strong German descent. My ancestor came to U.S. from Germany and was one of General Washington's close Lieutenants during the Revolutionary War. We toured Washington, D.C. thoroughly during our growing up years there but never heard about all the German connections and influence in this great city. Thank you for this amazing video. We are truly grateful to you for this video and will be sharing with our family. Hope to see more like this and the one on Chicago. Bill and Jackie Feeser ~ come and see us in far northern CA near Mt. Shasta!
@𝑇𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑟𝑎𝑚 @𝐹𝑒𝑙𝑖_𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚_𝐺𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 hope you read my comment. BTW love so much your Advent calendar readings. Watched everyone. A great tradition from my childhood. Should send them to my friends in Wittenberg. We did a Rhine cruise 2 years ago and toured Luther's Cities and Berlin and Munich 10 years ago. Love your native country. Our family are from the Baden-Wurttemberg area. Will be watching for more wonderful videos. They just keep getting better. Bill in far N. California.
Hi Bill, we hope you can make it to the GAHM some time. Greetings from DC to norther CA!
Great story and well done! I grew up in Baltimore Maryland but live now in Washington State. I am of Germany heritage on my mother side, our family immigrated to Baltimore in 1860. I didn't know many of the facts you discussed, a real learning experience. Thank you!
Does Baltimore have large Germany American communities?
I knew about some of this, but also learned a lot of new things I did not know. Thank you, Feli. And thanks to your German heritage for all that you have contributed to our great country. I wish a very Merry Christmas to you and Ben.
Thank you so much and Merry Christmas to you too! :)
Hallo Feli, as a half German/half American here and I cannot tell you how much I appreciate you posting this video and doing the in-depth research and interviews that really bring this vid to life! So many Americans have no idea how German America actually is and that English is Anglisch [from the Anglo in Anglo-Saxons] and just how much Germans have contributed to both the U.S. and the world including the "English" they speak today - Vielen Danke!
Unglaublich gut gemacht, vielen Dank für diese interessanten Einblicke in die amerikanische Geschichte.
Thanks Feli! I am a third generation Washingtonian and while I have learned through relatives a lot of historical information, you have further enlightened me! Places and buildings have always fascinated me. Thank you for gleaning new details and data. I can't wait to further investigate them.
I'd suggest 'The Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capital: The Masons and the Building of Washington, D.C.' by David Ovason
Other than just Masonic stuff it has alot of interesting information. 😂 At first the Masons denied some of his claims than they hired him as their historian.
Feli, great presentation! Always fascinating.
After arriving in the US in 1865 my grandfather did not Anglicize his name. He just let people pronounce it anyway they wanted to. It worked. Most of the results didn't sound anything like German. Two generations later we are still trying to sort this out.
Correct pronounciation would be: "Boo-tsoh", but with an short "oo" sound. (German U). Merry Christmas from Hamburg, Germany!
What is your name? Butzow? That sounds very Slavic tbh but there is a municipality called Butzow way in the East of Germany close to our border to Poland. Might your grandfather have been from Upper Silesia or another very Eastern territory of Germany which perhaps isn’t even part of modern Germany anymore? A lot of the people who lived there were really Germanized Slavs. They were definitely well-integrated into German (or at the time really Prussian) society so I would definitely still consider them fully German but they had become German more recently and their Slavic roots still show to this day in their last names for example. Some of them from very Eastern territories that now belong to Russia and were forced to emigrate back to the now smaller German mainland after the war are still considered “Russlanddeutsche” and culturally distinct to this day.
I’m not trying to tell you that your grandpa wasn’t German because Germanized Slavs definitely were German too and a lot of modern Germans have some Slavic ancestry (I’m as German as it gets but I think I might very well have some Slavic ancestry due to the fact that my grandma has roots in those slightly Eastern former territories with lots of Germanized Slavs). But I am wondering, that given your last name (if it is “Butzow”) which to be honest doesn’t sound very Germanic at all, your grandfather has similar roots.
Thank you. I'm going to work on pronouncing my name correctly. Even so, I suspect most people around here will still pronounce the first syllable like the English language word "but".
I hope you had a wonderful Christmas in Hamburg. I find it hard to believe that it has been almost 30 years since I was there.
@@lenn939 Thank you. I appreciate you taking the time to tell me about my possible heritage. I know the town of Butzow is a few miles south of Rostock. There has been some debate in our family as to whether the town was named for a distant ancestor or a distant ancestor took our name from the town. It's my understanding that this part of the world has had large numbers of various peoples invade or immigrate over the centuries. I suspect my genetics come from all over the place.
Thanks again for taking the time to fill me in.
Deiner beste produktion bis jetzt. Ich liebe Historie. Das war echt informativ. Sehr sehr gut und Danke sehr Felicia.
Love the documentary style. Excellent work! Thanks for putting this together.
Absolute Extraklasse. Ein hervorragend gemachtes Video. Hut ab.
How fascinating to. As a German-American who has lived in and worked in DC, I didn’t know any of this. Although I have retired to Pennsylvania, my son and his family live nearby in Virginia. You can be assured that we all are going to visit these sites in the Spring. Thanks so much for making this video. You have provided a great service to those German-Americans whose families have totally assimilated and have lost touch with our G-A heritage.
And she reflects how good education is in Germany too🥰
Fascinating educational history tour, Feli! I hope you can cover the German roots of Philadelphia. Years ago, research led me to learn that my Mexican mother had an 48'er Saxon ancestor, Ernst Karl Schaefer, who founded 2 German book publishing firms, first in Leipzig ,1844, and later in Philadelphia, 1848. The Horner library at the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philly preserves many German publishers' books and is a must see place. The younger brother, Moritz Schäfer, continued operations at the former publishing house which evolved into a water milling technical "verlag" which still bears his name to this day, almost 180 years ago. WWII destroyed the Leipzig book house, after which it moved west to Detmold, Lippe, North Rhine-Westphalia.
Also interesting! Many American breweries like Miller, Budweiser or Yuengling have German founders. The German television station SWR dedicated a documentary to this called "Beer Pioneers".
Washington had a German brewery as well, the Christian Heurich brewery, which also owned a number of bars in town.
This was an Amazing video! Well done and great Job Feli! I learned alot in this video. My Hometown of Bethlehem Pennsylvania and our entire region of Pennsylvania was founded by Moravian Germans in the early 18th century. Before we were even a nation, Germans were impacting the future of the U.S. Some of these settlements go as far back as the 17th century. It goes without saying the long and deep roots of Germans in the U.S., and the astronomical impact they had on this nation.
My German-American relatives are also from Bethlehem. I don’t believe my relatives were Moravian but, they were from Bavarian part of Germany.
@@rebeccasmith5156 awesome! Nice to hear that! Eastern Pennsylvania has a rich American history, and it also has a rich German American history!
@𝗧𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗶_𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺_𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 I will check that book out. It looks like a great read! I am sure that book only touches the tip of thr iceberg! I know most of the steel mills in Pennsylvania and Ohio were built by German immigrants with German technology. Most of the chemical processes were advanced for their time, and brought to the U.S. by Germans. I only learned alot of this in the past 2 years of the wide range of German History in yhe U.S. I knew basics, but not to this knowledge. this is what lead me to your videos! If not for the Christian identity of German Americans, they would of lost all contact with the German historical past. Now we, including myself are learning all types of new things from the Ethnic side, as opposed to just the Church side!
I mean,you literally were not a country before 1776.
As always, well worth the wait! The effort you put in and the professionalism is just astounding! Keep up the excellent work, Feli and Ben! Have a Merry Christmas and a good slide! 🙂
Thank you for joining us for the premiere and for the great feedback! :) Merry Christmas to you too and yes haha a good slide indeed 😄
Great and very informative video. I was born in Washington, DC in 1950, and except for four years in college and two in the US Army have lived in Northern Virginia just across the Potomac River. I have been to the German-American Heritage Foundation, but did not know of the "bigger picture" of past history. On my father's side I am of German Heritage. He and my mother came from Louisville, Kentucky.
Well done. You work so hard to produce top quality videos. It shows.
Sehr schönes Video, brachte viele Erinnerungen an meine Zeit in DC in den 1990s. Ich hoffe Du ( und Ben) wurde anständig vergütet von der Botschaft. Solche Infos zusammenzustellen und zu präsentieren ist eigentlich deren Aufgabe…Frohes Fest
Wonderful tour and historical rendition of our German heritage in Washington DC. As always Feli, you put a lot of time and effort into your podcasts. Keep up the great work and the best to you and yours.
Feli: well done! Very polished and professional. You’re such a talent. Thank you for connecting me with my German roots (even though those roots are small). Again thank you!
You have to do PA and NYC too. There is a huge German history here in NYC but also PA, obviously, so much to talk about there. Also, a history of Germany in the 18th and 19th century about how the colleges and technology that were the upper echelon of Europe (and the US) was not England but Germany. The story about the patented industrial garment dyes is fascinating! Oh and the Hessian soldiers brought here by the British to fight for them in the American Revolution.
You mean the Hessians who were captured by the Colonial Army, were held prisoner, and defected so they didn’t get sent back to Germany where they would’ve been hung? One of my ancestors was one of those Hessian soldiers.
I’d prefer that Feli not try to cover PA German history b/c even the PA German Cultural Center can’t get it right, so she won’t either. Leave us out of it. Sincerely, a 9th generation PA German; my 7th great grandfather was a settler from Bavaria, and would be considered German-Pennsylvanian not PA German.
I love Germany,but England build the world.
@@alex.profi27 yes, and with the toil and on the backs of many, many peoples they felt they had the right to enslave.
@@alex.profi27 and it’s “built” not “build.”
Great work, Feli. The clips with the director of the German-American Heritage were very interesting.
Feli,
I have been watching your videos for the past few years and this one demonstrates why you should be a major network presenter/producer. The production quality as well as your ability as an interviewer/presenter is excellent. I hope that news web sites/TV stations such as DW, BBC and CNN see what you have done here.
Danke,
Don
This is a great video! Very informative about the German presence in DC. Love the cinematography!
This was a really cool video! My grandfather was born in the US in North Dakota but ethnically he was 100% german. The community he grew up in still had a lot of german speakers and he actually grew up speaking both German and English. His family came from South Russia and was part of the Black Sea Germans (Schwarzmeerdeutsche) that immigrated there in the early 1800s. I took four years of German in high school so all I know is Hochdeutsch, but man, I really wish he had lived long enough for me to know what his dialect sounded like and how different it was from Standard German.
My surname German ancestor was married in Washington D.C. to another German before moving to Philadelphia. In the 1850 census he was listed as a Mathematical Instrument Maker which his son and grandson also did. I always wondered why he was married in D.C. in 1834. I now have more questions to be answered but thank you so much for your video.
Beeing a RUclipsr myself I can only imagine how much work and research went into this video. I watched it from start to finish and I really learned a lot.I am a German myself and I send you many greetings from Germany ❤❤.
Feli, thank you for investigating and sharing. I so enjoy learning about my German heritage in America. Wishing you and yours a wonderful Christmas.
Wow Feli, this was really impressive. Some things I knew and some others I wasn't aware of. Time just flew by while watching it. Shoutout also to Ben for his work behind the camera.
I'm pretty sure that this will also become a welcomed source for American students interested in US history. It's unimaginable how much time and effort you put in this collaboration with the officials and your own research. Merry Christmas and happy holidays from LK Dachau or from Markt Indersdorf to be exact.
What's really crazy is how "little" actual history is taught in public schools these days in general. It's sad.
Great video as always, Feli! So many interesting facts which were completely new to me.
Happy holidays to you, Ben and your families! Greetings from Germany
Seriously, Feli- Thank you!
While I have always been proud of my German heritage and knew some of the history (for example, I've known many family St. Nicholas Night and Christmas traditions came from Germany), it is only after coming across your videos a couple of years ago that I really got serious about it. Obviously I've been entertained by your postings, but these more serious cultural pieces have been very important.
I've recently been tracing family history, which is difficult when it comes to where exactly someone was from, since places had similar names and of course "Germany" itself did not yet exist. I've found that my G-G-Grandfather came over to Milwaukee in 1861, but I've had trouble finding his father's birthplace (around 1832).
This fall my Dad beat his second different cancer. Because of all the challenges various family members have fought through, I've had shirts made for everyone this Christmas saying "Eichstädt Unverwüstlich": an older spelling of our name, and the German word for 'resilient' or 'unbreakable' (I hope).
And thanks to one of your earlier postings, I know exactly how to pronounce the "v" and "w" 🙂
Again, thank you for making me more German.
Fröhliche Weihnachten!
@felifromgermany- just downloaded Telegram. What is your contact info--or what do you need from me?
@Ron Eichstätt
Your translation of "unverwüstlich" are both correct !!
Greetings from Germany and a happy New Year 😉
Add on: could it be, that your g-g-g-grandfather was born (about 1832) in Germany?
There is the "Auswandererhaus Bremerhaven/immigration house/Museum Bremerhaven", where all of the about 7,5 million immigrants, which left the European Continent, are registered. Good luck with that !!
Nicely done, Feli! It was awesome to meet you at Home Depot!
Oh hey yes it was nice meeting you too! :)
@@FelifromGermany An American of German descent through 3 of his 4 grandparents was Donald Trump. Please take him back!!!!! His great grandfather moved here to evade the draft in the state of Germany he left. Just like Donald in the 1960's
As always: professional, enlightening, and well-prepared! So glad I watched and thanks to Feli and Ben I learned so much.
Very well produced and presented. Thank you!
Very interesting. Ohio has some German history also. I attended the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus. It is a seminary that was established to educate German speaking students to become priests. It originated as an orphanage in Pomeroy, Ohio, moved to downtown Columbus and then in 1930 built the current campus north of Worthington. I am sure they would share their history with you. I attend 4 years of high school and a year of college and had yo take courses in German Spanis, and Ancient Greek. I married a girl who emigrated on her own to USA.
German Village in Columbus is a delight to visit
Excellent history lesson and presented so nicely by you and your two guests. The filming and editing were superb.
As a native Washingtonian, I found this video fascinating! Danke Feli!
Love your videos - thank you! You mentioned that the sculpture at the National Archives was done by Adolph Weinman. Although most people probably aren’t familiar with Weinman’s name, many would instantly recognize his most famous works: he designed two of the most beautiful and iconic US coins, the Mercury dime and Walking Liberty half dollar, produced from 1916 to the 1940s. The Walking Liberty motif is still used on the American Eagle silver bullion coin. Another German immigrant, Felix Schlag, designed the Jefferson nickel.
This is fantastic! It's very well made and researched and the work put into it must have been extensive! Feli, you did a wonderful job on this!
Merry Christmas to all of you and yours.
I love this. As I come from Germans myself, some names here I've heard mentioned in my family. I'm only 90 mins from DC, I see a history day trip in my not so distant future, not to mention German Market. Thank you for putting all this info together.
Thank you for another great video. I learned a lot from it. In addition to the great content and research, I was especially impressed by the great production values, especially lighting and audio coverage and synch. Your channel is a model of how to do it right. 🙂
Excellent work, very well done. Love this topic from you, I have learned so much. Photos and videography simply amazing!
Loved this. Would watch more of this kind of content. Very well done.
Thanks for your video on Washington DC. I definitely remember hearing the church bell from the church you visited when I was at my Grandmothers house in the 80s and 90s.
As a DC area resident, I loved this episode. It belongs on PBS. I have PA Dutch heritage on my mother's side, so I enjoyed your videos on PA Dutch German language. Oh, my wife is from Switzerland, so i also enjoyed your video on Swiss German as well. I guess all these reasons are why i enjoy your channel 😂. Keep up the excellent work! I would love to see another history lesson video on Philadelphia and eastern PA/NJ.
Tolles Video. Nach 5 Jahren in DC habe ich selber noch was gelernt. Danke!
Great video! Very informative. I would love to see you do something similar in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is a very German city.
A few years ago, I visited Luray Caverns in Central Virginia. I was amazed that in the local museum, most books from the XIX Century are written in German. I also learned that in the Civil War, some units on both sides received their commands in German, too.
Although many of my ancestor from Germany came to the US to avoid conscription they did fight on the Union side in the US Civil. There were many all-German units. The brother of my gggrandfather was in an all-German unit from my county in Wisconsin. We also had Norwegian units.from that area. A great great uncle of my late wife graduated from the Lutheran seminary at Gettysburg two weeks before the famous battle there. He was later the pastor of the largest Lutheran and German-speaking church in NYC.
This was great! If you ever look into doing a similar one for New York, be sure to read about the General Slocum disaster. It helped to wipe out Manhattan’s Little Germany neighborhood prior to WWI. My great grandfather was on board with his mother and baby sister. He survived, but they did not.
Sehr unterhaltsam und informativ. Hab's mir tatsächlich gerade noch ein zweites Mal angesehen.
That's full-fledged journalistic reporting. Feel free to do more.
Excellent video, Feli!! I learned a lot. This is TV quality! Well done!!!
The frescoes in the U.S. Capitol building were repaired in the 1950s, by LUDWIG KOENNEL, who had come from Saarbrucken to DC in the 1920s, and worked as a housepainter, who also painted beautiful pictures in his spare time.
Couldn't stop watching. Well done. Great video. Merry christmas
Feli, you should visit Germantown (part of Philly) and Valley Forge. Several of the signs in Valley Forge are in both English and German. Also, the Reading Liendenkranz is a short drive away. Many think they have the best Octoberfest in the USA.
We anglicized our family surname when we immigrated from Siegen, Germany, to northwestern Ohio. We’re the George family now, but our surname was originally Georg.
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Thank you Feli. That was so interesting. So many facts I didn't know about the German heritage in the US. I hope sometime you can do a video about Pennsylvania German heritage. Where I grew up in PA. half the people had a German background. Stay well and Happy New Year.
Very interesting and well-researched, so I dug out my grandmother's wedding "document" (a fancy large holy-card style picture in a frame). My grandfather's name is listed as Franz, though he was known as Frank. The text portion is in German, dated 1911 (this was in rural Wisconsin). And that book burning photo was from Baraboo, Wisconsin, which is not too far from here (Milwaukee).
Amazing facts I didn’t know about and love how detailed and well thought out this is ❤ keep up this amazing work and hopefully find more interesting facts , happy holidays ✨🙂
Thank you for this great video. I'm proud to hear that the guy who did the frescoes in the capital building came from the same state that my great-grandfather came.
The idea of Washington having 20-30k people at it's height at one point is amazing to me. I live in a relatively small city of 25k people in the middle of the US. It's just so little.
Hi Feli, fantastic video. I lived and worked in DC for more than 20 years, and I knew most of this, except for the Friendship Garden! I am familiar with the heritage foundation and the museum, as I worked for the American Association of Museums for a long time. It is good to spread the word about German influences on the USA.
On a personal note, my heritage is half English and half German (Mayer and Bruns families.) Now I have returned to the homeland and live in Rhineland Palatinate, where I teach English. And try to understand Pfälzisch. 😆
Feli, I learned so much!! Thank you. I live in Washington DC and I'm one of those many Americans with German ancestry -- but this was amazing. I learned so many fascinating things !!
Feli, great job!
I loved the whole segment.
Enjoyed this video very much Feli! Thank you for doing this and I would really enjoy a review of our National Parks: Yellowstone, Yosemite, etc and the German American contributions to making these natural treasures happen.
This is so professionally done and informative. I'm a guide here in D.C. and learned many great things. Thank you!
All of my fathers family is of German Descent, and my last name is angolized. My mothers grandma grew up in a German household in North Dakota(Her parents were Black Sea German, and immigrated to the states in 1905/1902 because of what was happening to fellow Germans, they went to the Russian Empire in 1815 from Baden Württemberg). I consider myself German and not apart of the “Old County”(Russian Empire). And my friends exchange student is from Germany. Merry Christmas from a Suburb of Columbus Ohio!
translated your handle into german, just for giggles, NeuSpoilerSchau :)
@@uliwehner danke! For some reason this is the first time I am seeing this, sorry
Eins der besten Videos die du je gemacht hast. Eine fundierte Doku. Ko ma schaun.
Thanks for this valuable history lesson, Feli! My grandparents left Westphalia in the mid-1920s and headed straight to California where I am now. They would have loved your program and felt very proud... as do I!
Klasse Arbeit Feli, man merkt wieviel Liebe du in deine Videos steckt.
Thank you for this. I'm a tour guide here in DC and often have German guests in my groups. This was so helpful.
Thank you Feli. Really enjoyed the video as a German-American and huge fan of Washington DC spending yearly vacations there to enjoy its vast history. I learned a lot and will find new parts to visit.
Feli, thank you so much for sharing this with us. Your videos have inspired me to learn about my German great-grandparents. ❤
Wow, superinteressent, Feli. Bitte mehr davon.
Vielen danke für einen schoen historische video. Ich hoffe ich habe alles richtig schrieben. I am not american nor german, but portuguese, pretty passionate about History and foreign languages and it's a pleasure watching your channel. It's amazing to discover all these stories and facts, and to understand how german people had such a huge influence in the USA, it's just sad that so much was lost along the way with all the nonsense after WW I...
This was a wonderful documentary/travelogue. I learned so much!
god damn feli . this is insanely high quality this looks more like a professional documentary than a youtube video!! very well done! keep up the good work! ive been subbed for a long time, and this next level!
Dein bestes Video, Feli! Frohe Weihnachten und guten Rutsch!
Tolles Video! Vielen Dank, Feli!
Very well done and interesting video. Thank you to everyone involved.
Hallo servus Feli!
Very well done with loads of information and supplements. A most worthy addition to your RUclips channel offerings! I learned a lot. Thank you very much, and congratulations to you on the fine production. 😊
Thanks for the tour Feli. I enjoyed that and learned a few things on the way.
A good video Feli it's like a small documentary. What the historian said in the church is interesting and describes very well where the interests of the German-Americans lay and how they built their lives in the new world.
So many artists, scientists and especially entrepreneurs. Years ago I saw a documentary about the gold rush in America and while most of the gold seekers from all over the world went to dig, many Germans did what they do best, opened a business or offered their services (profession). And now guess where all the gold ended up ;-).
Merry Christmas
Great job Feli. It was very interesting and very professional. Thanks for your hard work.