In 2000, people of German descent comprised the largest nationality or ethnic group (group of people who are not from the majority culture in the country in which they live and who keep some part of their former culture, language, and institutions) in...

Situated in the heart of Europe, Germany today adjoins nine neighbors: Denmark to the north; Poland and the Czech Republic to the east; Austria and Switzerland to the south; and the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France to the west. With a...

German Americans 50,764,352 17.1% of the US population...

In 1943, 17-year-old Eberhard Fuhr was taken out of his high school classroom in Cincinnati, arrested by FBI agents, and sent off to an internment camp for "enemy aliens" in Texas, where he spent the next 4 1/2 years with his family. Thousands of Germans...

DaimlerChrysler AG, which is examining options for its struggling American arm, will offer detailed financial information on the Chrysler Group on a selective basis to potential buyers, a senior company official close to the situation said Friday.The automaker and its investment bank, J.P. Morgan Chase...

Kurt Vonnegut's hometown has been celebrating his literary works in a "Year of Vonnegut" and will honor the late author this month at a sold-out event where he had been scheduled to speak.Fans who were eagerly awaiting his lecture on April 27 are crestfallen at...

Government attorneys are scrutinizing the FBI's terror investigations and national security cases more closely because continuing violations and sloppy mistakes are jeopardizing people's privacy rights.In the past four months, the Justice Department has focused on new problems at FBI offices in Little Rock, Ark.; Charlotte,...

A detailed essay that goes in depth to explain why the Germans migrated to the United States over the centuries.