German Emigration Center Explained

The German Emigration Center (German: '''Deutsches Auswandererhaus''') is a museum located in Bremerhaven, Germany dedicated to the history of German emigration, especially to the United States. It is Europe's largest theme museum about emigration. Visitors can experience the emigration process through interactive exhibits. The museum also provides access to databases of immigration records.^[1]

The museum opened on August 8, 2005.^[2]

External links

• German Emigration Center Website, in German and English

Further reading

• Bade, Klaus J. "From emigration to immigration: The German experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries." Central European History 28.4 (1995): 507–535.
• Book: Quirin , Katrin . Das Buch zum Deutschen Auswandererhaus = The German Emigration Center Book. . DAH . 2nd ubarb. und erw. . 2009 . Bremerhaven [Germany] . German, English . 978-3-00-028384-0 .

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Notes and References

1. http://www.dah-bremerhaven.de/english/english.html German Emigration Center Bremerhaven
2. Joachim Baur, Expokritik: Ein Migrationsmuseum der anderen Art. Das Deutsche Auswanderer-Haus in Bremerhaven . In: Werkstatt Geschichte 15, 2006, Nr. 42, S. 97-103