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Germans are primarily Christians, defining themselves, and paying taxes as, either Catholics or Protestants.
there are many catholics and protestants but also many atheists
Most German Catholics did not support Hitler.
chritians (protestants)
The number of Germans migrating to the U.S. after about 1830 was enormous. They migrated mainly because living standards and prospects in the German speaking countries were poor. But German Catholics were no more inclined to migrate than German Protestants.
In the Boer Wars the British fought against the Boers, who were descended mainly from Dutch settlers and also from some French and German Protestants.
The Anabaptists began when some German Princes wanted to manage the marriages in their kingdoms without papal interference. Although they agreed with many reform policies, they refused to be called Protestants. Neither the Protestants nor the Catholics wanted a connection to them either. Some of their practices, such as polygamy, were found abhorrent by the other religions. The Anabaptists became the modern day Mennonites.
On the whole, German immigrants to the US were welcomed. It is possible that Catholic Germans had a harder time than German Protestants. During World War 1, however, there was anti-German hysteria in all the English-speaking countries, not just the US.
How did martin luther contribute to the emergence protestantism in germany?
German protestants
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