diff --git a/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/templates/special/players/germ.xml b/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/templates/special/players/germ.xml
index d2caa2d3d5..6710aee14f 100644
--- a/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/templates/special/players/germ.xml
+++ b/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/templates/special/players/germ.xml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   </Auras>
   <Identity>
     <Civ>germ</Civ>
-    <GenericName>Germans</GenericName>
+    <GenericName comment="Translation: This string does NOT refer to modern-day Germans, but rather to the ancient Germanic tribes such as the Cimbri.">Germans</GenericName>
     <History>The largest migration in Europe of this period was that of the Cimbri people. The Cimbri were a large group of Germanic peoples originally from the Jutland region, in the north of modern-day Denmark. In the late 2nd century BC, their migration south into Italy and France would spark the decade-long Cimbrian War against the Roman Republic, bringing "Terror Germanicus" to the hearts of the Roman people.</History>
     <Icon>emblems/emblem_germ.png</Icon>
   </Identity>