In 1917, during WWI, a German newspaper in Cincinnati was raided by the US government

During World War I, federal agents raided the offices of the German-language newspaper, the Cincinnati Volkblatt, looking for ...
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A rare German dialect is dying, but this Missouri town is fighting for its survival

In the 1830s, a wave of immigrants from northern Germany settled in the area of Cole Camp, Missouri, bringing with them their farming skills and the dialect of Plattdüütsch. Now residents are working ...
Los Angeles Times

Turkish-German Fusion Finds Expression in Rap

BERLIN — He’s an edgy poet and a onetime crook. He riffs in German. He rhymes in Turkish. Moving like liquid, he has the joints of a ghost. He’s a cross-cultural rapper in a Europe restless about ...