Celebration of the German American Day 2018

The German-American Day reminds us of October 6th, 1683, when 13 German families arrived near Philadelphia and founded Germantown. This day honors the contribution of German immigrants to the development of America.

In 1952, the first American airplanes landed on Ramstein Air Base. Since those years, the region around Kaiserslautern has been shaped by Americans. German citizens and their relatives live together with the US-military  - a history with many ups and downs which is in the center of the work of the Atlantic Academy, the Docu Center Ramstein and the German-American International Women‘s Club (GAIWC).