Title: Why has German culture failed to preserve itself in American society? - Quora
Headings: Why has German culture failed to preserve itself in American society?
Why has German culture failed to preserve itself in American society?
Dan Holliday
Jon Mixon

Content: It was only a matter of 30 years anyway before the German identity in the US began to fade into the background. The two successive World Wars just sped up the process a bit. Any shame felt from those wars quickly wore off thereafter. The USA, with a bit of noted prejudice, openly celebrates and epitomizes the German immigrants to the point where by 1950 nobody much questioned their German ancestry. I grew up in the heart of "German America". My neighbors went by names like Sprauls, Sheimann, Neiger, Christianson, Kaiser, Volk, Keller, Klein, Junker (pronounced with the Anglo "J" not "Y" sound) and Hamburg. My street was peppered with those names. We celebrated Oktoberfest (in October, though). We went to our Lutheran Churches (one of the biggest churches in Northern Ohio). The smoldering embers of German heritage will remain smoldering within the American furnace for as long as there's a USA.