Talk:Germans in the United Kingdom

message: 'German Briton' is a neologism rarely used outside Wikipedia and does ot cover all the people discussed (e.g. Handel was not 'British', he just lived there). In addition, this page is short and mostly unsourced, and can easily be merged to the above page. Cop 663 (talk) 19:12, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge to [[Western European migration to Britain]]

message: He may have been from Germany, but he was not part of the German people aka ethnic Germans - he was Ashkenazi Jewish. Saimdusan Talk|Contribs 05:38, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: who are jewish Germans  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.164.249.193 (talk) 16:45, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Karl Marx?

message: Why is there no section dealing with the fact that a majority of British people are descended from Germans, the Saxons, who migrated here following the collapse of the Roman Empire and who's name - accompanied by the reference to the Angles - is normally used to refer to the English?
I am suggesting the creation of an additional history section detailing the Anglo-Saxon colonisation of Britain.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by NeroAxis (talk • contribs) 23:41, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saxons 

message: "Every subsequent British monarch until Edward VII in the Twentieth century would take a German spouse." Slightly True, but Edward VII did marry a German. His wife, Alexandra of Denmark, was from the Danish Royal family, the Danish Royal Family like the British Royal family are predominantly German descent. Queen Alexandra was from House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. So Edward VII did marry a German. His son, King George V, also married a German descendant, Mary of Teck, from the House of Württemberg. It was until Edward VII's grandsons, King Edward VIII and King George VI, who married non-Germans. Edward VIII married an American while George VI married a British woman. The current Queen Elizabeth is too married to a German descendant, Prince Philip is from the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg. So the statement in this article, "Even today, the Royal family is sometimes parodied as being 'German' even though the family's German blood is now much diluted" is not accurate since the British royal family is still predominantly German, and the blood is slightly diluted, not much diluted. 99.179.174.131 (talk) 03:33, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Royal family part is a bit inaccurate 

message: Most of these great contributors to British life from Germany were in fact Jews, who fit into a different ethnic group entirely from ethnic Germans. For example, many of the Jews who came to the United Kingdom from Germany were forced out of Germany due to the fact they were not ethnically German, and therefore it is absurd to say that they represent an ethnic group that they were deliberately excluded from for thousands of years. I suggest removing most of the 'prominent Germans' from that section, including Marx, Freud, Reuters etc, and moving them to their rightful place as 'British Jews'.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.25.244 (talk) 12:47, 25 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you'll find that there are far more reliable sources describing Marx as German than as British. Cordless Larry (talk) 16:22, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

text: Marx is regarded as German by reliable sources. Nothing in the article states that it refers only to ethnic Germans. Cordless Larry (talk) 21:05, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

text: This has nothing to do with someone's "right to call himself a German". Reliable sources call Marx German and that's what we go by. Cordless Larry (talk) 19:09, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

text: I suggest that you take this up at Talk:Karl Marx since the article on him states that he was German. If you want sources, there are a stack of them here. His ethnicity has nothing to do with it. He was a German who migrated to the UK, which is what the article is about.Cordless Larry (talk) 21:48, 8 March 2011 (UTC)

text: in Germany the idea that a German jew is not German is viewed as Nazi ideology 15:38, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  German Jews 

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