> I agree that this was NEVER mentioned > when I was attending school! > > Pat McCoy, M.S. > > Addiction Psychology > > Slow Down and Enjoy Your Garden! > ============================================= > > > The first part would be correct; > Bund = American Nazi Party. Or rather the closest thing to it, or Nazi > Party sympathizers. > There really wasn't a per se Nazi Party in America. The Bund was > led by a Hitler wannabe, and he even managed to get a picture taken with > him in 1936. > > The other one was some Soviet thing. > > Lots of stuff they never teach in school. > > Brian > > >> When I Googled "the Bund", I found references >> to the American Nazi Party and Jewish Slave >> Labor. >> >> Pat McCoy, M.S. >> >> Addiction Psychology>> >> >> >> Excuse my question. What was the Bund? >> >> >>> >>>> You know people often neglect what they think are little details, which >>>> on >>>> later inspection prove to be crucial to forming an accurate picture or >>>> hypothesis. >>>> >>>> Details like "My German ancestors settled in Washington D.C., and they >>>> had >>>> nothing but troubles during WWI& II.". >>>> >>>> Go figure, people with German accents and/or names being under >>>> suspicion >>>> at a time of war, against Germany, in the nation's capital. I'd be just >>>> as >>>> shocked to hear the same story for residents of Norfolk, VA (major >>>> Naval >>>> station). >>>> >>>> ; >>>>> My German relatives lived in the D.C. area so >>>>> that may have been a factor in the kind of grief >>>>> they got during both World Wars. >>>>> >>>>> Pat McCoy, M.S. >>>>> >>>>> Addiction Psychology >>>>> >>>>> > > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in >the subject and the body of the message > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1209 / Virus Database: 1500/3541 - Release Date: 03/30/11 > I always hated history in school. The way it was taught, it was so dry, and > it may have had something to do with a couple of really bad (or so I > thought) teachers. UNTIL I took "The Social History of the US to 1865" at > UCLA. I was MESMERIZED and then it started coming to life! But you're so > right, it was so "white-washed" that there wasn't anything left of any > "color" to learn about. The internet has certainly opened things up for new > information, hasn't it? Now I want to find a book about why the > German-Americans so often swept their German heritage under the rug. I > understand about WWI& WWII, but my Germans came to the US in 1837 and > earlier, and one branch even changed their name from Reiss to Rice! And > that seems to be the branch that fostered the "fairy story" that we were > from Alsace-Lorraine, instead of from Alzey, Hesse-Darmstadt. > > > I never heard about it either. On the other hand, one of the teachers > at my children's school pointed out that a tavern in the neighborhood, > still fairly raucous, was the local headquarters for the Bund. I did > not live here then, so this is second-hand information. Interestingly > enough, that particular 3 blocks is now mostly black. I wonder what the > Bund would have thought? > > > > I always hated history in school. The way it was taught, it was so dry, and > it may have had something to do with a couple of really bad (or so I > thought) teachers. UNTIL I took "The Social History of the US to 1865" at > UCLA. I was MESMERIZED and then it started coming to life! But you're so > right, it was so "white-washed" that there wasn't anything left of any > "color" to learn about. The internet has certainly opened things up for new > information, hasn't it? Now I want to find a book about why the > German-Americans so often swept their German heritage under the rug. I > understand about WWI& WWII, but my Germans came to the US in 1837 and > earlier, and one branch even changed their name from Reiss to Rice! And > that seems to be the branch that fostered the "fairy story" that we were > from Alsace-Lorraine, instead of from Alzey, Hesse-Darmstadt. > > > I never heard about it either. On the other hand, one of the teachers > at my children's school pointed out that a tavern in the neighborhood, > still fairly raucous, was the local headquarters for the Bund. I did > not live here then, so this is second-hand information. Interestingly > enough, that particular 3 blocks is now mostly black. I wonder what the > Bund would have thought? > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-Americans_in_the_Civil_War > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-Americans_in_the_Civil_War > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 10.0.1209 / Virus Database: 1500/3543 - Release Date: 03/31/11 ------------------------------ To contact the HESSE list administrator, send an email to HESSE-admin@rootsweb.com. To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to HESSE-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text.