Yes, I know. He was the grandchild of 2 grandfathers who had immigrated about 80 years before WWII, in fact.
80 years! And my uncle still felt part German. They still spoke some German at home in Texas after all that time. So I know how long a process assimilation is. But he worried about shooting at his possible cousins when he got to Germany. Until the camp...that did it for him. He knew the difference and there was no going back. He was American.
(In fact, I didn't write this above, but just remembered it, he said he tried to kill as many Germans as he could.)
Germans contributed a huge amount in the settlement of Texas, you can look at all the towns with ...burg on the end of the name and feel pretty safe in the knowledge that the folks were straight from Germany.
I've read that our Texas Hill Country looked a lot like home to them, so this is were they sunk their roots. (Lodwick = Ludwig prior to WWI, by the way.)