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Originally Posted by G1911
There are many spelling errors, but usually they were just a letter off or would have the same pronunciation. Smith and Schmidt are pretty far apart! They got his name right on his other pose.
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I’ve always wondered if they were just Anglocizing his name since Schmidt is the German version of Smith. He never went by Smith that I know of. But his birth name WAS Carl (German) and he/his family changed it to Charles (English for Carl)