[John Semmens]

A lot of Germans emigrated (escaped?) to Latin America after WWII. Intermarriage with the locals could yield a child with Latino features and a German name.

[wtc911]

There were thousands of Russian and German Jewish families who made it to Cuba and the Dominican Republic in the early part of the twentieth century.

I know one whose great grand-mother married a Cuban (Chaviano). They had a daughter, Olga Chaviano, who was a club dancer and bag-lady/courier for the mob. They are Russian/Jewish/Cuban. They fled the pogroms in Russia for Cuba then fled Cuba for Miami and NYC.

I know German Jews who settled in Sosua, DR, during the same period when Sosua was a good place to get a fresh start.

They left there when sketchy Italians and Germans started showing up in 1946/7.

The same thing happened to Russian Jews in Argentina.

It bothers me but doesn't exactly surprise me that so many freepers seem shocked that one can be Latino with a German name or German with a Spanish name.

And, frankly, it has absolutely nothing to do with this murder....except to people here and elsewhere who see everything through the prism of race.