One eighth was generally disregarded.
It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
It could be both - Jewish names and German names are often similar and it could be that your ancestors were both Jewish and German (Jews living in Germany).
One example of a German officer who helped American soldiers during World War II was Albert Battel. He was a Wehrmacht major who defied orders and intervened to protect Jewish prisoners from being executed by the SS. Battel instructed his men to resist the SS and managed to save around 120 Jewish prisoners.
The family name Kaminsky can be German, Jewish or German-Jewish in origin.
No his mother was a German. NOT JEWISH.
they were considered Jewish (no need to say more)
The name Wertz can be German, Jewish or German-Jewish.
It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
Yes, just as there are people of French Jewish and Russian Jewish descent. A term like German Jewish descent implies that the ancestors were Jewish and were from German cultural regions in Europe.
It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
Stone comes from Stein which is German and means stone. It can be German or German-Jewish. Many Jewish names are German words or come from German words. Schwartz, for example, means black in German.
It all happened on November 9, 1938 when violence against Jews broke out across the Reich. It appeared to be unplanned anger over the assassination of a German official in Paris at the hands of a Jewish teenager but the fact was that German propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and other Nazis carefully organized the pogroms. The morning after, German Jewish men were arrested for the crime of being Jewish and sent to concentration camps.
german
It is of German origin, but it may be a Jewish name.
Wasserburger can be a German Jewish name, but like all German Jewish names, it can be used by both Jews and non-Jews.
Yes, it is either of Jewish or German origin.
No, she was not Jewish.