diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java
index 997acd2d26a..6dd4d0cd56f 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java
@@ -169,7 +169,8 @@ public class GermanAnalyzer extends Analyzer
     {
 	TokenStream result = new StandardTokenizer( reader );
 	result = new StandardFilter( result );
-	result = new StopFilter( result, stoptable );
+  // shouldn't there be a lowercaser before stop word filtering?
+  result = new StopFilter( result, stoptable );
 	result = new GermanStemFilter( result, excltable );
 	return result;
     }
diff --git a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanStemmer.java b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanStemmer.java
index 3260aee3404..dd4ec0b2ac2 100644
--- a/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanStemmer.java
+++ b/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanStemmer.java
@@ -165,8 +165,6 @@ public class GermanStemmer
     /**
      * Does some optimizations on the term. This optimisations are
      * contextual.
-     *
-     * @return  The term with the optimizations applied.
      */
     private void optimize( StringBuffer buffer )
     {