My grandparents told me that people of German descent living in Pittsburgh suddenly began telling people they were really Hungarian. Such was the times.
> My grandparents told me that people of German descent living in Pittsburgh suddenly began telling people they were really Hungarian. Such was the times. <
Ha! And I had Hungarian relatives in the US who told people they were Greek!
(They said that because Hungary was an ally of Germany in WW 2.)
We lived in a big city. A German family lived across the street. Mom said our family was asked to report anything strange....like lotsa people coming and going.
People in Berlin, NH changed the pronunciation of their town’s name to make it different from the capital of Germany.