Burning Beethoven

<p><p></p><p>Before World War I the United States were home to a flourishing German culture. German-Americans were the biggest and most successful ethnic group all over the Midwest. But this culture was wiped out forever by a fury of an anti-German hysteria after America had entered the war. Overzealous American patriots renamed Sauerkraut Liberty Cabbage slaughtered dachshunds and eradicated the German language from American schools churches and newspapers. They changed the names of towns burned books destroyed libraries threatened priests forced German-Americans to buy war bonds and to kiss the star spangled banner. Vigilantes tarred and feathered and in some cases hanged German-born immigrants falsely suspected of being spies. Burning Beethoven shines a light on that dark chapter of American history.</p><p></p></p><p><p></p><p>Berlinica Publishing LLC offers English-language books from Berlin German; fiction non-fiction travel guides history about the Wall and the Third Reich Jewish life art architecture and photography as well as travel guides and cookbook. It also offers documentaries and feature films on DVD as well as music CDs. Berlinica caters to history buffs Americans of German heritage travelers and artists and young people who love the cutting-edge city in the heart of Europe. Berlinica cooperates with Berlin-based publishing houses.</p><p></p></p><p><p></p><p>Berlinica's current and upcoming titles include Our West Berlin by various authors also five translated books by famed Weimar author Kurt Tucholsky as well as Harold Poor's landmark biography of Tucholsky two translated plays by Ernst Toller and two American travel stories by Alfred Kerr and Roda Roda soon to be followed by Egon Erwin Kisch's Paradise America. Also upcoming is Christopher Columbus and the Discovery of America by Tucholsky and Walter Hasenclever.</p><p></p></p><p><p></p><p>In the non-fiction department we have Rocking the Wall the Bruce-Springsteen-book and Burning Beethoven about German Americans in World War I both by Erik Kirschbaum also Mark Twain in Berlin by Andreas Austilat Berlin 1945: World War II: Photos of the Aftermath by Michael Brettin The Berlin Wall Today a full-color guide to the remnants of the Wall by Michael Cramer Berlin in the Cold War about post-World War II history the comprehensive guide Jews in Berlin by Andreas Nachama Julius Schoeps Hermann Simon and A Place they Called Home edited by Donna Swarthout about Jews returning to Germany.</p><p></p></p><p><p></p><p>We also offer The Berlin Cookbook a full-color collection of traditional German recipes by Rose Marie Donhauser the picture book Wings of Desire by Lothar Heinke Martin Luther's Travel Guide by Cornelia Dömer Leipzig! The City of Books und Music by Sebastian Ringel and Berlin For Free a guide for the frugal traveler by Monica Maertens.</p><p></p></p>