Potato Germans

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Etymology

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Calque of Danish Kartoffeltyskere, in reference to the cultivation of potatoes in the areas they settled.

Noun

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Potato Germans pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) A group of German families who settled in the heathlands of central Jutland in Denmark during the mid-1700s.
    • 2017, Andrew DJ Shield, Immigrants in the Sexual Revolution: Perceptions and Participation in Northwest Europe, Springer, →ISBN, page 23:
      Then there were the French Huguenot tobacco farmers (early 1700s), the “Potato Germans” and paid German soldiers (late 1700s), and Moravian crafts people (late 1700s).

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