 The Germans were sympathetic to Germany and did not want the United States to enter into a war against Germany, but the Germans were not anti-British.Prior to World War I, many German community leaders in Wisconsin spoke openly and enthusiastically about how much better America was than Germany, due primarily (in their eyes) to the presence of English law and the English political culture the Americans had inherited from the colonial era, which they contrasted with the turmoil and oppression in Germany which they had so recently fled.The area covered by present-day Adams County was historically part of several other counties.