The family ties between hundreds of thousands of German families and their American relatives led many to think that America would never join a second war against Germany.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
A few weeks ago we were reminded that other peoples - in particular the United States of America - fought so that we Germans could live in liberty. That we should never forget.
My mother's family didn't speak much about Europe: My mother was born in 1935, and her new-world parents were the sort who didn't want to worry their children about the war.
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.
German militarism and Nazism have devastated twice in our generation the lands of German neighbors.
In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.
I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.
In this nation, the greatest of all nations, there are no second-class families. That is our great American conviction.
My grandmother was German. She was an immigrant, and my great grandfather fought in World War I and was stationed in France.
Both of my parents were first-generation Americans, the children of Jews who left Eastern Europe around the turn of the century.
My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.
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