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Question.

Is the German sound written as "ch" genuinely so difficult for English speakers to pronounce, or have they just bee conditioned by ortography to pronounce it as a variant of /k/?

In my very amateurish opinion, it would be more correct if they pronounced the "ch" as /h/ as in the word "hint", instead of /k/. But I almost never seem to hear that.

This is relevant to mostly because of my interest in WWII history, and the insistence among almost all English speakers of pronouncing the relevant words as, essentially, "third reik".

Why?