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Hello all, I have enjoyed reading the thread, I am an English man from maltby Yorkshire, I joined the army straight from school and my first posting was osnabruck germany and I loved the people and culture, despite it being a garrison city in the early 90's. I later learned from my grandfather that our family history is German, the family emigrating here from kunzelsau wurtenberg in 1904. We like many German immigrants owned a butchers shop and was persecuted during ww11 for our family name reisig, despite running a soup kitchen and his son (my grandad) being in the raf our butchers was torched during the war. We changed the business name from reisig to Roberts but to our knowledge the family name was never officially changed but my father and myself have Roberts now on our birth certificates. The business went bust after the war as accounts were not paid, my grandfather refused to sell on the debts. I'm proud of my German ancestry, loved my time in Germany and have visited our ancestral roots in the kingdom of wurtenberg. I also own a BMW, lol but have a classic jag also for fun. Ironically I was in the queens lifeguards in the army, she's German too. Frau Liz. Of family http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Saxe-Coburg_and_Gotha