German roots around the world

 

Millions left Germany over 300 years. Today about 1 in 8 Americans reports German roots, more than 40 million people. Do you have German roots? Where did the Germans go? 1683: Germantown, Pennsylvania 1763: Catherine the Great invites Germans to Russia 1816–1914: about 5.5 million sail overseas, most to the U.S. 1941: Stalin deports the Volga Germans east Since 1990: about 2.2 million moved to Germany from the former USSR Today more than 40 million Americans report German roots.

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Germanic in the Midwest

 

“A New Look at the 1948 Arab-Israeli War,”

“Benny Morris on “A New Look at the 1948 Arab-Israeli War,” Wilson Center, 43:15

“The war was definitely not a jihad or a religious war on the Israeli side. On the Israeli side, the Jewish population in Palestine, the yishuv, was 90% secular at the time. And the leadership of the yishuv was almost totally secular. The military leadership, the political leadership. It was a very secular society. You get an optical illusion when you look back from 2016 when Israel has become much more religious or a larger part, segment of its population is religious. But in 1948 the people who counted and actually the vast majority of the population was of course non-religious. In fact they were children, or actually the people themselves, who had rebelled against religion. This is what Zionism was all about, partly, against rebelling against the old world of their fathers, which was a religious world. They rebelled also against God. So they didn’t approach the war at all as a religious war, not the generals, not the politicians, not Ben-Gurion, not Sharet, not Allon, not Dayan. They were irreligious people, maybe even they were anti-religious, so the religious people saw them.”

Benny Morris, a self-proclaimed Zionist and a Jew who himself is not religious, is one of Israel’s leading historians.