Brookings listed St. Louis alongside such cities as Brooklyn and Queens, New York; Philadelphia, Pittsburgh; and Baltimore as demonstrating strong economic performance compared with other older cities.
You knew St. Louis was German: the beer and sausage, the stern but glorious churches, those cool old Turnverein gyms in the city… But the Donauschwaben have a special, darker story, their name carved of necessity from the atrocities they suffered.