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Article: In league with history; Hanseatic ports echo steps of German merchants, emigrants.(TRAVEL)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- January 22, 2005
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Byline: Corinna Lothar, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
HAMBURG, Germany - Wistfulness and envy accompanied the great ships, crowded with emigrants on their way to America, out of the mouth of the Elbe River into the North Sea. "America," the saying went, "is just around the corner."
Only a little imagination is required to see, in the mind's eye, the tearful scenes on the dockside, the weeping relatives saying goodbye, and the ships moving slowly toward the cold horizon. This was the starting point for the great waves of German immigration to the New World.
My great-grandfather set sail from the nearby port of Bremen, the exit, together with ...