[1] The government of Justo Rufino Barrios provided them with farmlands for coffee, farming in the Western Highlands, Verapaz region [2] and by the early 20th century Germans populated Guatemala City, Zacapa and Jutiapa.

Cobán later came to be monopolized by German trade in wholesale stores, but they and, to a greater extent, the fincas dispersed throughout almost the entire region of Alta Verapaz.

They had social activities at the German Club, or Deutsche Verein, in Cobán, founded in 1888, later renamed the Charitable Society.

[6] Dieseldorff formed a complex of farms over three periods: between 1890 and 1898 it acquired the Seacté, Chiachal, Click, SECAC-Ulpan, Santa Margarita, Paija, Panzal and El Salto farms; between 1898 and 1910 became the Raxpec, Santa Cecilia, Cubilgüitz, Chamcarel and Sacchicagua of Secol, San Diego-Yalpemech, Chichochoc, Chichaíc Santa Margarita, Rio Frio Pocola and estates; and, after 1924, it acquired the Sachamach, Tzimajil, Chiquixjí Raxahá and haciendas.

In 1938, every Sunday in Coban, a group of young Germans using traditional shorts, notes the book Soul Mates, "marched in military form of Magdalena farm to the club, singing songs extolling Deutschland and its mission in the world ", which at that time included the enslavement and occupation of Eastern Europe, the sterilization of the disabled and the internment and eventual slaughter of Jews, Gypsies and homosexuals.

It is difficult to know exactly the number of Guatemalans of German descent, counting only in Alta Verapaz, Zacapa and Guatemala City there are a large number of descendants of German (and without other strong areas of Quetzaltenango, Baja Verapaz, El Peten, Sacatepequez and El Progreso).

Currently, there are still people with German last names like Winther, Euler, Buechsel, Henstenberg, Quirin, Kouffer,Wellmann, Noack, etc.

[citation needed] The arrival of Pastor Otto Langmann (1898–1956) in 1930 in Guatemala can be described as the beginning of the Nazis in the German Colony.

By the end of his long career at sea, Dieseldorff Gualán chose, Zacapa as his place to retire.

[citation needed] Subsequently, most of the German landowners were deported, under pressure from the United States, for supporting the Nazi Party.

[5] Cabinetry-maker Heinrich Gundelach and Protestant pastor Otto Langmann were founders of the Party's organization in Cobán.

According to the book Los Alemanes en Guatemala by Regina Wagner, that same year (1938) the long-since present German School formed a Hitler Youth, practiced the salute, and discussed National Socialist race theory, disregarding that the German school also had students of Jewish descent.

[13] The Germans introduced much of their culture in Guatemala Christmas traditions, one of which was the Christmas tree introduced in the late nineteenth century, according to a belief that Germans traian Christmas tree is: "It is said that St. Boniface evangelized Germany, downed tree representing the god Odin, and in the same place planted a pine, a symbol of enduring love of God and adorned with apples and candles, giving a Christian symbolism: apples represented the temptations, original sin and sins of men candles represent Christ, the light of the world and receive the grace that men who accept Jesus as their Savior."

The representatively iconic Gallo beer of Guatemala has German roots of national flavor to the brewery industry.

Today in Cobán, the Alta Verapaz departmental governmental seat, extant 19th century German stylistic and cultural tastes can be noted in houses, cathedrals, parks, clock towers, in the administrative palace, and as well in other Alta Verapaz cities such as San Juan Chamelco.

The students sang hymns and participated in a presentation symbolically tearing down a wall decorated with drawings.

[21] Guatemala is one of the partner countries with which Germany enjoys close development cooperation based on intergovernmental agreements.