Saturday, July 11, 2026

Milwaukee's German papers would have reported on ICE murders in July 2026 ...

 

     Milwaukee's German newspapers would have reported on the murders of immigrants Joan Sebastián Durán Guerrero (Maine) and Lorenzo Salgado Araujo (Texas) by US christian nationalist government troops. That would include 3rd victim Juan Jairo Coronilla Duran, who had already planned to return to his home
     The first 2 victims were misidentified as immigration targets by the murder squads. What immediately followed these murders makes the stories even more horrific, following the pattern of the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and no doubt, countless other deaths attributed to ICE.

It's believed that no US government fascist employees have been inconvenienced or detained following these events.

Friday, July 10, 2026

A 'Deutsches Haus' in Milwaukee? Couldn't be built: the German 'community' was too divided.


Could a "German Haus" have ever be built in Milwaukee? A question dating back to the 1930s. 
For one thing, the Lutherans wouldn't have tolerated it.
     You'd think that Goethe House Wisconsin's 30 years of residency at the Milwaukee Public Library was a logical answer to this question. But that residency never produced a single project or event, not a pamphlet, not a poster, celebrating Milwaukee's huge, diverse, German immigrant working-class community.
     Nothing was EVER done in conjunction with the Milwaukee Public Library, nor with the Milwaukee County Genealogical or Historical Societies, nor with any of the then-fading German cultural groups of Milwaukee. To this day there is no "German Research Group" linked with the MCGS.
     That was the state of any "German" information I found in Milwaukee in the early 2000s.
My 100% German immigrant tree was NOT found in the English language papers prior to WWI, so I made a deep dive into 2 German-American microfilm archives and I found them there.