Talk:Mischling

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I removed the last para because I content that it wasn't neutral, if not inaccurate. (See NPOV.) I googled mishling and "John Kerry" and got a whopping 5 results, only one of which made any direct mention of Kerry and this word. See the Google results. -- Alcarillo 23:43 23 Apr 2004 UTC

Judging by the article itself, this seems to be a German word, rather than an English word. It does appear in 1570 english language pages found by Google though. Etxrge 07:07, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] modern German usage

In modern German usage: I have not heard the word for persons for a long time. (Insulting usage excepted) Most of the time it is used for dog or cats from differend race, with out any negative meaning.

• Thats true though. Germans don't use these typical anglo-american race classification anymore nowerdays. Since nobody has a RACE or heritage sektion printed in his passport its not only uncommon to use phrases containing Mischling(hybrid, mongrel, half breed) it alway raises public media discussions if things like afro-german or ethiopien-descended-german etc. are broadcasted. The general consens is to call them german if they are germans(by citizenship or practice).

[edit] Johannes Zukertort ?

The article has a link to a Johannes Zukertort (described as a "last-rank general", but this lnk goes to a German-Polish Jew who was a chess master, and died in 1888....Was there indeed a mischling General Zuckertort? Engr105th (talk) 18:55, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Omissions

1. The article says nothing about what happened, in general terms, to these people. After all, the majority didn't become officers in the Wehrmacht. Norvo (talk) 23:09, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

2. Much of the article is identical with this text:

So what's going?

3. On what authority is the claim that Jews who converted to Christianity became Roman Catholics rather than Protestants based?

4. Baptismal records were used very widely to prove non-Jewish ancestry. Priests and pastors all over Germany were inundated with requests like 'Please send me my Aryan grandmother' and the like. I hope to find a source for this soon. Obviously, the churches in Germany found whole matter extremely embarrassing for decades after 1945 and it's not something that's widely talked about. Norvo (talk) 23:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)