Hi Meccorad;
I don't think this woman meant anything, I once went though a class where you're told to ask question of people, and not assume things because you may assume the wrong thing. When you ask question you learn a lot through them. I also have some German in my blood line and so does my husband,and when I meant him, he had this look on his face, I like to call it, the stern German look (mean and scarry) which I've seen in my Grandmother and cousins faces when they didn't know you, but they turned out to be the kindness persons going. So don't let what or how she said things hurt you, they were only words and I bet she was just as scarred asking them.