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Originally Posted by metsgeek
No offense taken. It's a realistic response. There actually was a bit of a backlash against anyone with a German surname left in the States, whether or not they sympathized with the Nazis (which he most certainly did not. According to my father, he cursed Hitler every day for ruining Germany). Grandpa Carl was called "Dutch" because of his blond hair and blue eyes (like many others nicknamed Dutch in that era), but he didn't have any Dutch lineage in him.
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Yeah, I made a point of trying to leave Carl's actual opinion out of my post since there's no way Wolter would've known what it was.
Another reason a lot of Germans were called "Dutch" is because the word for German in German, "Deutsch", is so similar.