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The show’s researchers found that the actor’s mother and aunt were the children of the half-German baby.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 28, 2022

“All these countries I never thought I’d travel to — just to tell jokes. There are these half-German, half-Filipino kids who discovered me on the internet,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2021

Today, I shall go to the German embassy in London to sign the necessary forms so that my half-German sons may apply for dual citizenship.

From The Guardian • Dec. 2, 2018

Mr. Agoutin lives in Paris and Mr. Menke lives outside St. Louis, though he was born in Strasbourg, France, and considers himself half-French, half-German.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 4, 2018

He had once been a sailor, and had all the roughness of character that a sea-faring man might expect to possess; together with the half-Yankee, half-German peculiarities of the people of the Mohawk Valley.

From Clotel; or, the President's Daughter by Brown, William Wells