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The Federal Republic of Germany is one of the most densely populated countries in Europe, with a population of over 80 million people. Sixty million Americans are of German heritage. The first wave of German immigrants came to the US for religious freedom and settled along the eastern seaboard. The second wave arrived between 1840 and 1860 and was fleeing political persecution, poverty, and starvation. Many worked as indentured servants. The 1930s and 1940s saw a third wave because of the rise of fascism in Germany.
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Purnell, L.D., Fenkl, E.A. (2019). People of German Heritage. In: Handbook for Culturally Competent Care. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21946-8_14
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