Germanness

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Germanness on Trial: the German Evangelical Synod of North America and the Espionage Act of 1917</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is an examination of the crisis experienced by a small German-American Protestant denomination at the time of the anti-German hysteria that accompanied World War I. It includes a thorough examination of the trials of two pastors for violating the Espionage Act. It then explores the struggle within the denomination on how to cope with the tsunami of anti-Germanism.</span></p><p></p><p></p>