More than 88 milliion Americans can claim to be of German descent. My maternal great grantparents, Johannes and Katharina Bergh fer, came from Hesse Nassau, Germany, to the United States in 1880 with their five children. This book is both family history and an investigation of my German-American heritage. By the time that I was born in 1942 in Hampton, Iowa, the German culture which shaped my mother and her parents had all but disappeared. This book...
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