I'd just like to throw it out there that strife is an English word. If you want to get technical about its etymology, it originated in the thirteenth century from Anglo-French. It is certainly similar to the German verb strītan which has a similar meaning, but that's no reason to draw the conclusion that Cloud is (or would be) German. Further, given that English is a Germanic language, it's almost meaningless to draw this connection. A majority of English words are derivative of German, usually with a flair of French. The rest are latinate simply because of the massive intellectual hard-on scholars had for Latin during the gross majority of Middle and modern English's development.

On a side note, the thought of a German American seemed silly since such a large bulk of the white American population has Germanic ancestry.