are english people actually germans?

They named their new home after them, it's a good clue is it not!

No, the English are primarily Celtic in origin, with some mixture of Angles and Saxons (keeping in mind that Germany didn't exist back then). Archeologists have compared the DNA of skeletons from before the foreign invasions (Romans, Normans, Angles and Saxons) with the DNA of modern Englishmen and found them to be very similar, which suggests that the invaders didn't leave a lot of their DNA behind.

Not according to DNA:

http://www.nature.com/news/1998/030616/full/news03...

"But the Y chromosomes of the regions tell a different story. "The Celts weren't pushed to the fringes of Scotland and Wales; a lot of them remained in England and central Ireland," says study team member David Goldstein, of University College London. This is surprising: the Anglo-Saxons reputedly colonized southern England heavily."

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"Goldstein's team collected DNA samples from more than 1,700 men living in towns across England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They took a further 400 DNA samples from continental Europeans, including Germans and Basques. Only men whose paternal grandfathers had dwelt within 20 miles of their current home were eligible.

"The Y chromosomes of men from Wales and Ireland resemble those of the Basques. Some believe that the Basques, from the border of France and Spain, are the original Europeans."

In the Fourth century, the north of England was settled by numbers of Germanic tribesmen. Many Germanic names are to be found among Englishmen - that of my father included. What's more, English is a Germanic and not a romance tongue. But I'm here to tell ya - I'm not calling myself German after seventeen hundred years!

Then the Normans came to England through William the Conqueror, who was from Normandy but descended from Vikings.

no more so than a great number of Americans,at one time in the 19th century there were more German immigrants than any other country and Congress voted to change the language to German,the British Language won by a margin vote

Only the truly insecure give a monkey’s toss one way or the other.