The most influential immigrant group in American history is the one nobody argues about, because almost nobody remembers it was them.
Start at the beginning. The Continental Army was a half-trained mess until Baron von Steuben, a Prussian officer, showed up at Valley Forge and drilled it into a real fighting force. The freedom of the press you take for granted traces back to John Peter Zenger, a German immigrant printer whose 1735 trial established that you can't be jailed for printing the truth. German-Americans were shaping this country before there was a country.
Then look around your own life. Your Christmas tree is German. The hot dog (Frankfurt), the hamburger (Hamburg), the pretzel, the delicatessen, all German. Kindergarten is German, the word and the idea, brought over and opened by Margarethe Schurz. Blue jeans came from Levi Strauss of Bavaria. Heinz ketchup, Steinway pianos, Oscar Mayer, and the big four beers, Budweiser, Pabst, Miller and Schlitz, were every one founded by German immigrants.
The Brooklyn Bridge was engineered by John Roebling, born in Prussia. The Santa Claus you picture every December, plus the Republican elephant, were drawn by Thomas Nast, a German immigrant. Pfizer was founded by Charles Pfizer, who arrived from Germany in 1848. Boeing was built by the son of a German immigrant. John Jacob Astor showed up from Germany with next to nothing and became America's first multimillionaire. Charles Steinmetz, a disabled immigrant nearly turned away at the border, went on to make modern electrical power possible.
And it kept going. Wernher von Braun designed the rocket that put America on the moon. Einstein was German. Carl Schurz, a refugee, became a Union general and the first German-born US Senator. Eisenhower commanded D-Day and won the White House under a name once spelled Eisenhauer. Babe Ruth was a German-American kid from Baltimore.
Here is the kicker. German is the single largest ancestry group in the entire United States, around 44 million people, bigger than Irish, English or Italian. The biggest thread in the whole American fabric, and somehow the quietest.
They never asked for parades. They just trained the army, freed the press, engineered the bridges, founded the companies, built the rockets and lit up the Christmas mornings, then blended in so completely you forgot they were ever the "other." That might be the most American story there is.
Heartbreaking. After Iraq legalized child marriage last year, it has been reported that tens of thousands of girls as young as 6 are being sold by their Muslim fathers to rich Arab men, some as old as 70.
Where is the global outrage?
lSlS committed Genocide against 500K Yezidis for refusing to convert to lslam,killed 10K, kidnapped 7K Yezidi women,lSlS burned 19 Yezidi girls alive for refusing to convert to lsIam and be sex slaves,beheaded 50 Yezidi women.
Not a single MusIim protest
Why does no one care?
In Africa, Arab Muslims are enslaving black African Christians.
The media, progressives, Palestinian protesters, the UN, and even the Pope remain silent.
TELFORD MUSLIM GANG CONVICTED OF KIDNAPPING AND TORTURING MAN WHO SPOKE TO THEIR SISTER
They knocked on the door of a 21 year old man before grabbing him and putting him in the boot of an Audi A4
A relative of the victim tried to stop them but is shoved away
The victim had managed to release the boot from inside the car and tried to escape but the gang stopped him
He was then placed in a storage unit in Eyton where he was tortured
In court they revealed they did it because the man spoke to a female member of their family
Haider Ali
Jawad Hussain
Ehteshan Hussain
Faheem Chohan
Shayyan Hussain
Will all be sentenced at a later date
SIKORSKI: I'd like to point out the difference in the targets that the two sides select. Russians hit an 11th-century monastery in Kyiv. And remember, in the 11th century, Moscow was still a forest. Ukrainians hit an oil refinery in Moscow, which is a legitimate military target.
Bayern held some exploratory talks with Michael Olise's camp over a potential contract extension beyond 2029, but the talks have not gone beyond that since then. The club is determined to extend Olise's contract as soon as possible. An annual gross salary of at least €25m is considered a realistic figure based on Olise's performances and in comparison to what Jamal Musiala earns. Although Olise has yet to commit to an extension, Bayern bosses believe that he has everything he needs in Munich (With Vincent Kompany, the Frenchman has a coach who gives him complete freedom on the pitch, a management that fully supports him, fans who love him and a shot at all trophies every year), all factors that speak in favor of Bayern [@georg_holzner, @kicker]
🚨❌ FC Bayern have also received confirmation from Michael Olise’s camp that there have been no talks, meetings or negotiations with Real Madrid so far.
No offer from Real Madrid either. Bayern are not open to negotiations. Olise has not expressed any desire to leave.
Instead, Bayern are working behind the scenes on contract extension beyond 2029 and want to make him one of the club’s top earners. @SkySportDE 🇫🇷