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I stumbled across this today. My grandfather (who was Jewish) fought for the Germans in WWI and the USA in WWII. He always said he fought on the correct side of both world wars.

It's also interesting to show this as contrast when people claim the internment of Japanese was uniquely racist.

1 posted on 10/18/2017 9:20:02 AM PDT by Jewbacca
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Some of my ancestors were German. They came over three generations before the revolution and settled in the Hudson River valley. The name is not too common and so is not viewed as a “German” name.

That being said, my great-grandfather went by the nickname, the Dutchman, in WWI probably so as not to be thought of as German. His family had been here for over 200 years at that point and this was in Kansas City.


282 posted on 10/24/2017 5:29:29 AM PDT by KC Burke (If all the world is a stage, I would like to request my lighting be adjusted.)
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