Thread:Timmy McGuire/@comment-27628170-20170115210906/@comment-1272640-20170404011525

Ryoung122 wrote: Pluto2 wrote: The German Empire isn't the same country as the Republic of Germany. You should not confuse a political state with national identity.Ryoung122 (talk) 00:59, April 4, 2017 (UTC) We shouldn't claim that Gerneth was born in "Germany". He's ethnically German, his birthplace was at the time the German Empire, and it's now Poland. It's not "Germany" as in "Republic of Germany", and shouldn't be classified as such.