On Jan 20, 7:53*pm, HK wrote:
Tim wrote:

The best French restaurant in the metro DC area is owned by a family
from Alsace, which is just barely France - an area adjacent to Germany
and Switzerland. In fact, it has been German as often as French in the
last few hundred years.- Hide quoted text -

In town was a local guy that married a german girl right after WW2
and brought her here to the states.

She spoke good english but never lost the heavy low german accent. And
she told me how during "ze var", Her family took decent care of french
prisoners on their family farm. I asked her why, French were taken
better care of then other nationalities. and she said it was out of
courtesy because over history....."Sometimes they vin!"

Make of it what you will, but I thought it was a candid aproach.