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German Town: The Lost Story Of Seaford Town Jamaica.
A documentary on a German founded village in the mountains of Westmoreland Jamaica.
Interviews with the descendants of the original German migrants who remain in the village and a display of the German remnants of culture and heritage living on in the village to this day.
Copyright 2012/2022 D. Ritter.
Directed and produced by David Ritter. All rights reserved.
Views : 485,798
Genre: Education
Date of upload: Feb 24, 2022 ^^
Rating : 4.93 (113/6,354 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2024-05-18T03:58:38.174715Z
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As a Jamaican i learnt a lot from this documentary.
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Manners and Respekt Codie 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾, Love your poem. Am a Jamaicain 🇯🇲 living here in Germany 🇩🇪, am a mother of two children plus my stepson and a grandmother of 7 beautiful adorable blessings grandchildren and they all Born here in Germany 🇩🇪, this country welcome me and and my family so much, the opportunities that was given to us here am so so thankful and grateful for it, this Documentary was very inspiring and interesting . I just wish we could all just live as one ☝🏾. Learn to start by loving Respecting and understanding each others more. Just come together and live as one . Love and Blessings all 🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🫶🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
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Iam half German and half Jamaican,and watching this made me feel very connected to these People
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My father was born in Seaford Town. The very sad thing is that we were never taught about this very important part of our / Jamaica's history in school. It should be included in the curriculum.
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My father grew up on Berkshire, not too far from Westmoreland. I never knew about the German town until I went to visit my family in Berkshire. We stopped off at a little shop in Seaford, where a woman and her daughter worked. It turns out they knew my father and he had been going to that shop since he was little.
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I was born and raised in Kingston Jamaica in 1961 migrate to USA in 1993 and I was never taught of German history or that Germans are living in Seaford in Jamaica so surprised when I came up on documentary,thanks for info,like the motto says out of many we are one
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So many people are ignorant about history. Not necessarily their fault. It’s good to read, study and learn
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bro noway !! that bradley eldemire kid was my classmate back at meadowbrook high in 2010-15. i never questioned his heritage but seeing this makes me super happy i was close friends with a german.
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This is where am from, it's so good to see some familiar faces that are still alive.
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That young man with the hat will go far, he has a great heart.
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Excellent documentary David. So happy to see this. For those of us born in the 60’s and before, German Town was public knowledge and taught in schools. Many of us have family members born and raised in German Town. The Jamaica Observer did a historical series I think it was called “Pieces of the Past” They identified various ethnicities such as Lebanese, Germans, Chinese and Indians, and noted some came freely, but most came to Jamaica as indentured servants. This history has been intentionally hidden for political agendas to only recognize or promote African slavery as the origins of Jamaica. Every race or group that came to Jamaica seeks to maintain their own racial identity including slaves from Africa. That is not unique to German town, Africans or any other race. The Arawak Indians who were original to the island were said to no longer exist and that is not true. They are currently Jamaicans who carry the ancestry of the Arawak Indians who are the rightful indigenous people to the island before all others arrived on the island.
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I've been German Town several times as I have family in Westmoreland. They're Jamaicans just like the rest of us, and I love the diversity of my island.
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This is so amazing, I was born in Jamacia and never knew of this part of history. This town should be on the tourist map like the Maroon towns, showing the various culture of Jamaica. This is what makes Jamacia unique, I pray this small town stay strong. I like the lady fiesty reply to the taxi man, had i been in her situation i would have responded the same. I can see they are proud to be Jamacians. Thank you for the education.
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thank you for putting this together. I learned alot
JM
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Thank you for this information. I was not aware of German Town, I am not surprised. There is a town in Colombia or Argentina I think the documentary said. Built by the Germans escaping WW2 in the 1930's. They appeared more prosperous than the Germans in JA. As they built schools, homes, shops, churches, restaurants and little coffee shops. Though they traveled with more wealth it appeared.
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Really enjoyed watching your Well produced Video/Documentary of Seaford Town. Its a shame that until this day Jamaica keeps failing on teaching its children our full History Werther good or Bad Positive and Negative. I am a German Jamaican Germaican/Jaman😁 mother German father Jamaican Born and grown in Jamaica Up until 19 yes of age and i never knew German Town existed until around 2 yrs ago on YouTube. I've been living in Germany now since 2003 and Hope to visit Seaford on my next visit. I Hope the Younger Generations become more integrated to feel at Home and Like Jamaicans because for me nuhweh nuh feel Like yaad. And i say that after living in Germany for now almost 20 yrs and visiting Other Euro countries and countries in Africa. Jamaica is Special !
My Love to every fellow Jamaican wether white/yellow/black or brown 👍🏽🤜🏾
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David Ritter is an incredible documentary movie maker. We think he should try his hand at a feature film now.
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I am a Jamaica and is the time I have heard about the German living in Jamaica that is new to I am so glad to that thank David
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My great grandparents August and Mary Anne came on the Oldbrecht from Bremen but they settled in Alva, St. Ann.
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@WrighteousBrand
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they don't have to be afraid to share their history and speak of their people because in jamaica we welcome everyone we dont see color we see character. i'm from Manchester Jamaica and have also lived in St Elizabeth and we have plenty white folks living in these areas and we all lived as one we never look at anyone color i'm so grateful for this documentry. my great great grandma is white. lets continue to live in one love as we always have dont let outside influence change us we love our Jamaican people no matter their ethnicity. One Love One Heart.
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