My uncle Hugh married a German girl in Hamburg and brought her back to the U.K., so this isn’t quite what was asked but it might provide an interesting contrast.
Hugh was actually “Heinz” and was an Austrian Jew. He came to the U.K. with my father as boys in 1938. Hugh was old enough to enlist in the British Army in 1942 and saw a lot of action in tanks, finishing the war in Hamburg.
So he brought Elvira back to bleak, post-war, bombed out London in the late 1940’s. Not just that though. He brought her to Hampstead, a part of London full of Jewish refugees from all over Europe.
Germans were not popular in post-war London, as one might imagine. They were, after all, responsible for turning a lot of London into gravel. However it was widely assumed that Elvira was a Jewish refugee like so many around her. Her English was pretty good but accented, and she was in no rush to say “Actually I was in Hamburg throughout the war and I’m not a Jewish refugee”.
My mother, a Londoner who had been injured by a flying bomb, occasionally commented on Elvira because she was German, but tbh, there wasn’t a political or Nazi bone in Elvira’s body, or my uncle would never have fallen for her. I don’t remember her being negatively affected by being German, and when Churchill died I remember her weeping along with many others.
Pic L to r: my brother, my cousin, Elvira, my mother.
Had she been more open about not being a Jewish refugee, her reception might not have been quite so hospitable.