The frontier town was founded in 1814 by 800 German Swabian communalists, one of the Pietist sects that arose in the ferment of the Protestant Reformation.
By December 1947, when the four foreign ministers met in London, an open break was inevitable: Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet representative, delivered an insulting attack on the United States, claiming that America had enriched itself during the war whereas Russia had suffered more than anyone at the hands of the Germans.
Domestically the Prussian parliament and Prime Minister Otto von Bismarck were locked in a constitutional conflict over the length of military service (two or three years), though what was really at stake was the question as to whether King William I was bound by the stipulations of the constitution.
Germans could live with a peace based on Wilson's points, because the war had devastated French, not German, soil and the Bolshevik revolution had removed the military threat in the east.
At its pep-rally convention in May, Finance Minister Theo Waigel, the CSU chairman, declared that Germany "must not become a nation of immigrants," called for a halt to immigration of all kinds, and demanded the expulsion of foreigners, along with their families, found guilty of crimes.
The German Village is the largest privately funded historic neighborhood in the United States—233 acres of "living" history and a reputed architectural style showcasing carved limestone lintels, clay chimney pots, and slate roofs.
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