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From: "Michael Palmer" <>
Subject: Re: Anti-German War Changes in the U.S.
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 15:31:16 -800


On Thu, 02 Sep 1999, wrote:

> I have been folowing this thread with much amusement. Did Granny also
> tell you about all of the places and street names in Cincy that did not
> change?? How about a great big area called Over-The-Rhine? I live
> hear and believe me, the anti-German sentiment must have died a fast
> death because it did not get very far.

I assume, then, that you were born some time after World War I, most
probably after World War II. Nor do you appear to have read Don Heinrich
Tolzmann's _The Cincinnati Germans after the Great War_, American
University Studies, Series IX, History, vol. 16 (New York: P. Lang,
c1987). There was indeed considerable anti-German sentiment in Cincinnati
after the United States entry into World War I in 1917. Many street names
in Cincinnati were changed, and it is only in the past three years that
the Cincinnati B"urgerliga, under the presidency of Dr. Tolzmann, a
librarian at the University of Cincinnati and long-time president of the
Society for German-American Studies, was able to persuade the city council
to put the original German street names, in small letters, under the
present street names on street signs in the city center. Cincinnati's
present appreciation of her German past dates from after World War II, and
did not achieve any significant momentum until the late 1970's/early
1980's.

Michael Palmer
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Michael Palmer
Claremont, California

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