Jim Wrote:
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>Native Americans and the American West generally are of great
>interest to Germans -- maybe because of the vastness of the "wide
>open spaces" and their own dreams of more national Liebensraum.

While there are several reasons for the above, one of them undoubtedly is
that several generations of Germans have read books by Karl May, who wrote
extensively about American Indians in the form of fiction for young
readers, while he has never been to the USA. Although little known in the
USA, he has been translated to many languages.