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<p>[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 53571, member: 44"]>They didn't want anyone to know they had a Japanese vase during the war.<</p><p><br /></p><p>So true!!!! Most Americans in the 1940s didn't want anything Japanese. Your aunt's actions were not unusual. There were many derogatory names for the Japanese like Jap, Nip to those rivaling those for Afro-Americans.</p><p><br /></p><p>>My mother always said her grandmother was German, but she had one cousin who refused to admit it. When they came to America from Canada, they changed their name from Schmidt to Smith so no one would know. WW II was a tough time for people with Japanese or German ancestry, no matter how far back it went.<</p><p><br /></p><p>Bev, your German ancestry history is quite interesting! I hadn't know about their Quebec connection. Gee, those of relatively recent German roots had a hard time during WWI. Many still with German accents were stones and their houses burned. It was common during that era for them to anglicise their names. Even King George V changed his family name of Saxe-Coburg something to Windsor during WWI. Saxe-Coburg was the surname of Prince Albert - husband of Queen Vic. At the outbreak of WWII, the father of a girlfriend of my brother moved his family out of town to live in the hinderlands of upper New England away from any town. His wife was a 1920's immigrant from Germany who still had a thick German accent. He feared for her safety because of the trouble Germans had during WWI. Thank goodness their wasn't quite as much anti-German hatred and violence during WWII, but Germans were still shunned and the children were teased at school. There was also a bushel of derogatory names for Germans during WWI & II running the gamut from Jerry, Kraut, to .....</p><p><br /></p><p>--- Susan[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ladybranch, post: 53571, member: 44"]>They didn't want anyone to know they had a Japanese vase during the war.< So true!!!! Most Americans in the 1940s didn't want anything Japanese. Your aunt's actions were not unusual. There were many derogatory names for the Japanese like Jap, Nip to those rivaling those for Afro-Americans. >My mother always said her grandmother was German, but she had one cousin who refused to admit it. When they came to America from Canada, they changed their name from Schmidt to Smith so no one would know. WW II was a tough time for people with Japanese or German ancestry, no matter how far back it went.< Bev, your German ancestry history is quite interesting! I hadn't know about their Quebec connection. Gee, those of relatively recent German roots had a hard time during WWI. Many still with German accents were stones and their houses burned. It was common during that era for them to anglicise their names. Even King George V changed his family name of Saxe-Coburg something to Windsor during WWI. Saxe-Coburg was the surname of Prince Albert - husband of Queen Vic. At the outbreak of WWII, the father of a girlfriend of my brother moved his family out of town to live in the hinderlands of upper New England away from any town. His wife was a 1920's immigrant from Germany who still had a thick German accent. He feared for her safety because of the trouble Germans had during WWI. Thank goodness their wasn't quite as much anti-German hatred and violence during WWII, but Germans were still shunned and the children were teased at school. There was also a bushel of derogatory names for Germans during WWI & II running the gamut from Jerry, Kraut, to ..... --- Susan[/QUOTE]
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