Germanness

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• Subjected to pressures from increasingly exclusive German and American nationalisms, they tried to define Germanness as compatible with the "American Way of Life," even though that eventually proved to be impossible.

  Academic text (2016)

• Although people came from different regions and supported a variety of customs, threads of "Germanness" held together the daughters of these immigrants.

  Academic text (1990)

• The Literati found these older German communities better harmonized with their sense of Germanness.

  Academic text (2016)

• Many writers aligned their Saxon origins with their hyphenated Germanness abroad.

  Academic text (2016)

• Distinct patterns of migration and remigration shaped later understandings of Germanness.

  Academic text (2016)

• The letters offer a fascinating glimpse at the discursive negotiations of Germanness during the 1930s through a Saxon American lens.

  Academic text (2016)

• The external Heimat, embodying Germanness outside of Germany, was a common trope through which Germans abroad asserted their connection to Germany.

  Academic text (2016)

• Where the Alte Richtung looked to England and the United States for inspiration, the Neue Richtung worshipped Germanness.

  Academic text (2003)

• Finally, I argue that while National Socialism radicalized Saxon conceptions of Germanness, it primarily reinforced, rather than altered, preexisting conceptions of the Volksgemeinschaft.

  Academic text (2016)

• Many German Americans take pride in their Germanness, reflecting their cultural heritage during community events.

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