German Americans in WW2?

Question

German Americans make a great amount of the American people. In ww2, were they allowed to fight in the army? If so, how much could they have been, and how did they feel?
Sergeant Aderholt, Private Sammy Schwarzer and Corporal Mahler shooting on Johann Mueller and Franz Schmidt sounds kinda awkward...

Answer 1

My father fought in WW II and he was the son of a German couple that came here from Germany at the end of the Civil War. My grandfather signed up and fought in the Union Army. My father was 60 miles from the bunker where Adolf Hitler shot himself.

Answer 2

There was aloud outcry of German Americans when Hitler took control. There were those that formed their party that supported it. Later they went into hiding.
See the Historychannel.com for that info
I believe there was a mass out cry at Madison Square Gardens and they were encouraging people to join the Nazi party.
Most Americans still did what they had to do.
That's until they knew exactly what the Nazi party was really doing. Then they turned around.
But if you look at the debate in San Francisco at the time of the war you will see a huge diversion and it's very interesting.
I find it funny that I married a German and I'm english.

Answer 3

American Germans were not discriminated against like the Japanese were. The only American Germans that were discriminated against were the ones that went back to Germany and fought for Hitler. Yes that did happen.

Answer 4

There was clearly a double standard as to who was the enemy in WWII. Since so many Americans were of German ancestry, we were fighting the "Nazis" in Europe, not the Germans. A politcal ideology rather than an ethnic group. Contrast that with the Pacific campaign, where the enemy was typically referred to as "Japs".. a whole people.

Answer 5

think what you may but it was an american relative of alfried krupp who commandeered his castle (villa hugel) and took it for his company post and took krupp captive and later turned him over for prosecution at nuremburg.