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Many German surnames as well as place names are Slavic in origin, yes. From long ago. So it would be more distant Slavic ancestry, Slavs who got Germanized over time by Germanic conquerors. It is true that at one point in history there were only Slavs in what is now East Germany. They never left, rather they mixed with Germanic conquerors, so the East Germans of today are the descendants of them.
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