All of the Americas did. After the conservative clampdown of 1848, German nonconformists of many stripes emigrated to seek a better life in the new world. This included liberals (some of whom ended up bolstering the abolitionist cause in the US and Latin America) as well as unorthodox religious groups (most famous among them Amish, Mennonites and Anabaptists).
Not-so-fun fact: there was a large, creepily culty German religious separatist community in Chile for a long time. When Nazi war criminals looked for their boltholes, some of them ended up there. This did not improve things.
And a lot of Germans who saw the writing on the wall got the fuck out. My great grandparents saw the antisemetism rise suddenly, sold their business and house to a family friend and jumped on a boat for Australia he promised to sell it back to them once things calmed down…
All of the Americas did. After the conservative clampdown of 1848, German nonconformists of many stripes emigrated to seek a better life in the new world. This included liberals (some of whom ended up bolstering the abolitionist cause in the US and Latin America) as well as unorthodox religious groups (most famous among them Amish, Mennonites and Anabaptists).
Not-so-fun fact: there was a large, creepily culty German religious separatist community in Chile for a long time. When Nazi war criminals looked for their boltholes, some of them ended up there. This did not improve things.
And a lot of Germans who saw the writing on the wall got the fuck out. My great grandparents saw the antisemetism rise suddenly, sold their business and house to a family friend and jumped on a boat for Australia he promised to sell it back to them once things calmed down…