My Dad always makes the separation the nicknames for germans belonging to the different World Wars, Krauts - WW1 & Jerry - WW2. For him I think the distinction has something to do with his father & father-in-law were on opposites side of WW1, & the surname change when dad was a kid. Dad is 80 and fought in WW2.


Anybody know what "Dirty Irish" meant/means? Recently Dad related a story about his father-in-Law always wearing this very ugly both orange & green ex-large ex-long tie on St. Pat's, in reponse to the bad treatment of DirtyIrish which he considered himself. My guess is that is was meant poor/ or working class. I'm not sure what he meant by bad treatment either, possible that religious war or some specific connection to his generation.

CJ

CJ