Most people don’t know this: the largest wave of immigrants in U.S. history wasn’t Italian or Irish — it was German. 🇩🇪➡️🇺🇸 They didn’t come chasing the “American Dream.” They were escaping famine, military drafts, poverty, and political crackdowns. Some had to sell years of their labor just to afford the trip. They crossed the ocean on ships that took weeks… then built entire towns across Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Texas, Missouri, and the Midwest. They brought kindergarten, pretzels, C