50. Thomas Nast, who immigrated in 1846, created the beloved American Santa Claus. Also father of the modern political cartoon, he gave us the donkey (Democrats) and the elephant (Republicans).
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51. Flyer of the "Germans from Russia Heritage Society," founded in Bismarck, N.D. in 1971. Russia-germans became leading agricultural pioneers in the Great Plains.
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52. "UNRESTRICTED IMMIGRATION AND ITS RESULTS.--A Possible
Curiosity of the Twentieth Century--The Last Yankee."
Puck, March 1914.
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53. The Amish, concentrated in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, stick to pre-industrial-age traditions of working and living. At a barn fire clean-up or a barn-raising they show their strong sense of community. Their religious language has remained German to this day.
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54. More and more American and German communities are joining hands as "Sister Cities." (l to r): Mayor Fr. Gutgsell from Pfaffenweiler/Black Forest, S.C. Chair Cl. Eckert and Mayor J. Alles from Jasper, Ind. at their signing ceremony, May 1985.
55. Taking a cruise on Berlin's Lake Wannsee in April 1990 are former Berliners now living in the U.S., who had to leave their homeland during the Third Reich.
56. "The Star-Spangled Banner" in a German version from Psalterlust für die christliche Jugend, published by the General Evangelical-Lutheran Synod of Ohio and other States (1890). They sang all stanzas!