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The men have large "handlebar" mustaches, wear peaked hats with a feather stuck in the brim, white shirts and lederhosen shorts with kah-nee sox. They are often seen carrying tubas, with which they make German musik!
The women are busty and wear corsets that push up and show off their "wares." They are often seen carrying mugs of beer to the men.
My Grandfather (Mom's Dad) of 2nd G of German ancestry would always say, "ya can tell they're German, just look at the nose". He was kidding tho. Wasn't he?
My dad was pure German, he grew up in South St Louis, which was populated mostly with Germans. A popular insult at the time was "I wish I had your nose full of nickels!"
So, the nose thing must be true, been hearing that all my life!
Also, my mom, (also German) always told me that as soon as I was born, instead of Daddy asking the usual fingers/toes question, he asked whose nose I had, lol.
Quite a few Germans coming through Ellis Island had their names changed involuntarily, due to incompetent clerks.
That's a myth well known to most genealogists. An immigrant's papers as well as the ship's passenger list were prepared before embarkation by people in her/his home country and were quite accurate, especially in the years immigrants came through Ellis Island. Generally immigrants changed their names after they were here, either because they were illiterate and couldn't spell or because they wanted to anglicize the name to avoid stigmas or better assimilate.
I didn't say there were no blond Germans. I'am Swedish, 100 %. Growing up in Sweden I looked a little different from my fellow Swedes. I were not blond and blue eyed. I did not have fair skin. I looked more South European.
When I lived in Germany I saw many blonds but not nearly as many as in Sweden.
One of my all time fave movies, what a great send up of Marlene!
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He was kidding tho. Wasn't he? 
