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Most people did not change their names. However, some refugees from Germany in Britain and the U.S. adopted English names ... In those days there less tolerance of cultural diversity and there was a lot of pressure on newly arrived immigrants to become 100% American or British. It was widely considered 'bad manners' to have an unpronounceable name. Some names could, in fact, cause really difficultu, such as Hoch, Hecht, Jaeger and so on.

Please note that the practice of anglicizing names was well under way much earlier.

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