Goals of the German World Alliance
The German World Alliance was founded on September 21, 2002 and incorporated as a nonprofit organization in Washington, DC on March 11, 2003.
The German World Alliance refers to persons of German cultural, linguistic, or ethnic heritage throughout the world.
The goals of the German World Alliance are the following:
guarding human rights of persons of German cultural, linguistic, or ethnic heritage world wide,
fostering information sharing and communication among Germans throughout the world, and
preserving German language and culture.
GWA ACCOMPLISHMENTS 2005
We succeeded in attracting organizations and individuals from many nations. Recently, the umbrella organizations in Serbia and Poland joined the GWA.
We produced statements for World Refugee Day, World Human Rights Day, and the International Women’s Day.
We assisted the Vladimir German family in Walla Walla, Washington in getting US asylum based on their German ethnicity.
We helped organize a Dresden Commemoration Service in Washington, DC and issued a Dresden Commemorative statement.
We held a very successful Annual Meeting in Vienna in September 2005.
We cooperated closely with the German‑American Internment group in support of the Wartime Treatment Studies Act, sending support letters to Senators Feingold and Grassley.
We protested the US government failure to send a representative to the Anniversary of General Von Steuben's birth in Germany.
We co‑hosted several meetings in Washington, DC with the Steuben Society.
In late 2005 we successfully completed fundraising for re‑publication of the Vardy-Tooley book Ethnic Cleansing in 20th-Century Europe, together with the Institute for German-American Relations (IGAR).
The Bylaws of the German World Alliance
The Brochure of the German World Alliance can be downloaded here in Word Format.