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Originally Posted by Boris
The name Kessler in my sig isn't my real surname though... but it could have been. My grandfather (being a Volga-German: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volga_German) defected from the Red army to the Wehrmacht during the war. Because he thought the Russians might one day come looking for him, he decided to register under his wife's name instead, when they moved to Argentina after the war.
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Hey, I'm of Volga-German ancestory myself! The Oberlanders of North Dakota, immigrated to the US in the mid-to-late 19th century.