Donald Trump's Family Hid German Roots-Especially When selling to Jews

... Kallstadt, a small town near the German border with France, ...

How many people Anglicized their name when they came to Ellis Island so they could fit in better, or at least their kids would?

Most people didn't change their names . Why should they? You can change your name, but not your genes! Which is more important? Your genes or your name.

Apparently not one bomb fell on their properties during the German bombing of Britain.

It would go down in history as the day the Luftwaffe came closest to claiming the ultimate trophy – the life of George VI. Exactly 69 years ago today, German bombs hit Buckingham Palace when he was in residence, an event elevating the reluctant, stammering monarch to hero king in the eyes of the people.

Now a private and emotional letter written by Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, only hours after they both survived the attack, can be reproduced in full for the first time.

Released by Buckingham Palace ahead of the publication this week of the first official biography of the Queen Mother, the letter is her personal account of the events of 13 September 1940 to her "darling" mother-in-law, Queen Mary.
In it she records how she was "battling" to remove an errant eyelash from the King's eye, when they heard the "unmistakable whirr-whirr of a German plane" and then the "scream of a bomb".

"It all happened so quickly that we had only time to look foolishly at each other when the scream hurtled past us and exploded with a tremendous crash in the quadrangle," she wrote.

Most people didn't change their names . Why should they? You can change your name, but not your genes! Which is more important? Your genes or your name.

Many anecdotal stories exist about Göring's resistance to the Nazi ideology and regime. For example, Albert is reported to have joined a group of Jewish women that had been forced to scrub the street. The SS officer in charge inspected his identification, and ordered the group's scrubbing activity to stop after realizing he could be held responsible for allowing Hermann Göring's brother to be publicly humiliated.

Albert Göring used his influence to get his Jewish former boss Oskar Pilzer freed after the Nazis arrested him. Göring then helped Pilzer and his family escape from Germany. He is reported to have done the same for many other German dissidents.

Göring intensified his anti-Nazi activity when he was made export director at the Škoda Works in Czechoslovakia. He encouraged minor acts of sabotage and had contact with the Czech resistance. On many occasions, he forged his brother's signature on transit documents to enable dissidents to escape. When he was caught, he used his brother's influence to gain his release. Göring also sent trucks to Nazi concentration camps with requests for labourers. The trucks would stop in an isolated area, and their passengers were then allowed to escape.

After the war, Albert Göring was questioned during the Nuremberg Tribunal. However, many of those he had helped testified for him, and he was released. Soon afterwards, Göring was arrested by the Czechs, but he was again released when the full extent of his activities became known

Noone had ever heard of
genes in those days.

I wouldn't hold it against him. I grew up in New York, Jews are a big part of New York and also big in the real estate business. I had Jewish friends whose parents would not travel to Germany in the fifties and sixties, for obvious reasons. With Trump building his business empire in New York, he found it a good idea to hide his German heritage, and in his situation it probably was a good idea.

How many people Anglicized their name when they came to Ellis Island so they could fit in better, or at least their kids would? No big deal.

My name was shortened from the Yiddish diminutive, "Foofala," to the more Anglecized, "Foofie."