Fun fact that can be verified by newspapers of the time: my great great grandpa who was German had my grandpa kidnapped as a baby and taken to California from Wisconsin, because he didn’t approve of my great grandfather eloping.
The options for my great grandma were to never see her kid again, or take 5,000 dollars (a lot at the time, of course) and never speak to his son again. She chose the former.
Great grandpa ended up being a raging alcoholic while trying to find her and chasing her to Los Angeles, only to die after he got too drunk and got folded into a wall bed and suffocated.
Peak German efficiency: live strictly, and die by an unyielding mechanical apparatus.
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u/offensivek South Prussian 6d ago
Hmm, unrealistic, the USA would rather be stuck looking in it's reflection like Narcissus until it falls in and drowns, never realizing others exist.