Yes
Most white US Americans are actually descendants of Germans. Look it up lol
Well, there's Grimm's fairytales but these guys heavily toned them down as they intended to write for children specifically.
The original stories are much more 'mature' as in cruel, fucked up and obviously without romanticism.
For example look up the original
Sleeping Beauty story.
Here, the king who finds the sleeping princess doesn't kiss her to wake her up.
Instead he rapes her in her sleep, leaves her behind, she gives birth to twins while still asleep (the fairies taking care of the babies) and when one of the babies sucks on the princess's finger it removes the straw that had been keeping her asleep.
So , that girl woke up to 2 kids and didn't know what had happened to her.
Then there's a plot with the King's wife who somehow finds out that her husband had fathered kids with another woman.
She goes full jealousy mode and orders some servant or cook to kill the kids and feed them to her and the king.
So
The Cook doesn't do it tho and the jealous wife gets punished (and killed I think)
Then the king goes back to the princess, takes her and the twins with him and marries her.
The actually disturbing part about this story is how extremely misogynistic this whole story is.
The impregnation of the princess by the king is seen as a
good thing for her. The story ends with a line that reads like "you see, sometimes luck arrives over night", referring to the rape as an opportunity that changed the princess's life for the better.
And ofc the old wife of the king is the stereotypical "evil, jealous woman who can't handle a younger woman's beauty"