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Originally Posted by Crawford
I'm skeptical. I don't think I've met a German-American from that immigrant wave who was from modern-day Germany borders.
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You haven't met my mother!
(plus an aunt and 2 uncles). From Schleswig.
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Prewar Germany was twice the size, so it could be many of these German-born migrants are from modern-day Poland, Russia, or Belarus, but it still doesn't fully explain the numbers?
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Don't forget that Germany had been blasted to smithereens, there was every reason for many to leave. In addition a ton of women were widowed and probably wanted to get the hell out of there and seek opportunity elsewhere (that said it would be interesting to see data for that period by gender).