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“I am happy here in Germany…I got tired of being a second class citizen. I feel like a man now, and people treat me like a man –which is more than I can say about the place where I was born.” A black GI on his decision to stay in Germany after his tour of duty, from Negro Digest (March 1949)
> more Maria Höhn Wins DAAD/GSA Prize for the Best Article in the German Studies Review > more Photography Exhibition Germany: Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut German American Institute Tübingen October 1 - November 26, 2010 USA: University of California, Berkeley, CA October 7 - November 7, 2010 A Breath of Freedom By Maria Höhn & Martin Klimke Forthcoming with Palgrave Macmillan Fall 2010 > more House Resolution Recognizing the Difficult Challenges and Heroism of Black Veterans February 24, 2010 > more Marvin Gilmore Honored for WW II Military Service > more Boston Globe article Vernon Baker, Belated Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 90 > more |
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Links & LiteratureA further goal of our research efforts is the dissemination of this fascinating, but little explored chapter of German-American relations in the 20th century. In this section, you will find further information on events, publications and websites related to this story. We hope that this information provides a first building block that will lead to a much more nuanced and sophisticated sense of how America’s struggle for democracy reverberated across the globe.
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