It should be no surprise when I tell you that my mother is Danish and my wife's family have Germanancestry and we were also put out in a pram as babies.
If we remind ourselves of the fact that every fifth American today rightly points and perhaps also with a certain degree of pride to his Germanancestry or her Germanancestry, we can safely say that we, indeed, share common roots.
For instance, the integration of foreigners should become smoother thanks to the long-overdue decision to modify an 85-year-old law that made ancestry, not residence, the determinant of who is German.