Whatever happened to German America?

What is America’s largest national ethnic group? If you said, English, Italian, or Mexican, you’re wrong. Today, some 46 million Americans can claim German ancestry. The difference is, very few of them do. Indeed, aside from Oktoberfest, German culture has largely disappeared from the American landscape. What happened?

Erik Kirschbaum, an American journalist living in Berlin and the author of "Rocking the Wall: Bruce Springsteen, the Berlin Concert That Changed the World" and "Burning Beethoven: The Eradication of German Culture in the United States during World War I," will discuss at 2:30 p.m. Friday, March 4, in Miller Hall Room 152.

​The event is free and opened to the public.

Sponsored by the German Honorary Consul in Seattle, Petra Heussner-Walker, the German Embassy in Washington D.C., the WWU Department of Modern and Classical Languages and the WWU Department of History.