The "Dutch" Germans are real. The country of Germany is "Deutschland" The language they speak is "Deutsche", which when spoken in English sounds like "Dutch", therefor, the Germans were and are in many cases called "Dutchmen", though, in fact they are not from the Netherlands (which means "lowland". Remember what "nether" means in English. A direct steal from another language. Also the German/Dutch(Netherlands) border is a common one and the language (dialect) spoken from Amsterdam to Bremen is understandable to almost all the people in the area. The dialect of the Germans near the Baltic Sea through Schleswig-Holstein is "Plattdeutsch" a very near sound to English (Anglo-Saxon) and Dutch (Netherlands) speech. Jim Blass