In my original hometown of San Francisco, the fading of the German language started even earlier than WW1/WW2. At the time of the Great Fire & Earthquake of 1906, a very substantial number of propertties, homes, and businesses were insured by insurance companies headquartered in Germany. After the devastaion, the German insurance companies quickly and quietly pulled uo stakes and fled oversea, not paying off claims from the people who had paid for the insurance. There developed from that point an animosity fueled further by the wars...
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