My grandmother was German but was then made French. She’s from a region called Alsace-Loraine which is on the border between France and Germany, and it was contested territory for the last few centuries, changing hands a few times from what I can gather. Anyway between WW1 and 2 the Germans had it, so when my grandmother was born in '39 she was German. Then near the end of the war the Americans came through and 'liberated them' (read: bombed everywhere to -blam!-) and then the French took the territory, so then she became French. Because of how much each side fought over it Alsace is kind of both French and German now, with their own mashup language, culture, food etc. even if they’re still official French territory. It’s where Quiche comes from, among other things My grandmother has a house there (her grandmother's house) and we used to visit every year, but not so much these days. Just a farmhouse in the middle of a rural town. I’ve only ever been into Germany properly a few times, one year we took a trip into the Black Forest and another year we went to this super fancy fish restaurant along the Rhine (the river that serves as the border these days)