Very beautiful Cuckoo Clock house.
And I have a question - what happened next with the Germans? In the First World War and the Second World War?
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My great great grandparents were German immigrants,. By the time of the wars the children in the family had attended American schools and were speaking passable English. They were mostly hard working farmers and skilled barn builders. I think they were known and respected enough in their rural communities, where most everyone else had also immigrated here that they didn't have too many difficulties. They did stop speaking German, but still maintained many of the cultural traditions and cooked German food.
It's great if they weren't looked at as enemies. In Russia, in the USSR, it was just the opposite. Moreover, in the 90s it turned out that in our town there are many descendants from German prisoners who were here during the First World War. There is even a monument in the cemetery to the captured Germans who died at that time. But the attitude towards the Germans was completely different in the 40s of the last century. And this is understandable. There were also a lot of prisoners, but there is a terrible story about how a train with prisoners arrived and no one opened the wagons until the voices stopped. And in the 90s, when people began to be given land for building houses, they found a lot of guests and skulls in the ground. This was the place where people were dragged out of the wagons and buried. I read the articles in the local newspaper then, but they haven't said anything about it for 30 years... It's scary.
So even in the noughties, some of my friends went to live in Germany as repositories. One of them was a girl, my colleague. Recently, her friend told me that Lena's husband died and she wants to come live at home.
But the buildings that the captured Germans made before 1917 are still functioning perfectly. And there is an amazing story about the city's water supply system, which was then built by these people. Before that, there was no running water in the city.
I'm sure there were bigoted suspicious people. then, just as there are today.
Despite Trump, I think most people are aware we are a country of immigrants.
Yes, of course, that's why I tell my friends that there are fewer Nazi thoughts in your country.
I was surprised that I heard the word "black" from women at work today in the direction of Dagestanis. It seemed to me that it remained in the 90s.