The German-American Experience by Don Heinrich Tolzmann

He also ignores the entire issue of whether or not cities banned the teaching of German before the Ake law. He covers this issue in three pages, and does not present any details of what occurred in specific cities and areas. It mentions the repression and the Ake law, but does not go into any great detail. Knepper's 1989 Ohio and Its People, the most recent history of the Buckeye State, only quickly brushes over this issue, and it does not provide any footnotes. Historiographyįirst, we need to look at what previous works have said about this issue. Eventually I hope to expand this effort to examine the treatment of the German language in all of Ohio in this period.03. Finally, this work will quickly sketch how the German language and Germanic influence was attacked across the nation. Third, we'll examine the Ake law in Ohio, passed in 1919, which banned the teaching of German in all schools below the eighth grade. Second, we will look at how the German language was restricted in Cincinnati.

First, we will take a quick overview of how past historians have dealt with the issue, and define the parameters for this effort. This article aims to examine a portion of the controversy concerning the German language in Ohio during World War I. This effort combines an examination of Cincinnati Board of Education records with printed sources and newspapers.02. The article also discusses the Ake Law, which banned the teaching of German below the eighth grade in Ohio in 1919, and demonstrates some of the anti-German efforts occurring across the country in this period. Thus, World War I on the home front is a much more complex picture than previously believed. The article determines that the teaching of German was not immediately banned, and the hysteria of this era was manifested in different ways than what is commonly thought.

This case study reveals some of the mechanisms utilized for repression of the German language and illuminates the attitudes prevailing in the Queen City. This article examines the anti-German sentiment that prevailed in Cincinnati during World War I. Persecution of the German Language in Cincinnati and the Ake Law in Ohio, 1917-1919

The German-American Experience by Don Heinrich Tolzmann