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Originally Posted by Docere
More post-war European immigrants to the US were from Germany from any other country and Germany was the top immigration source in the 1950s.
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I'm skeptical. I don't think I've met a German-American from that immigrant wave who was from modern-day Germany borders.
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.
There were also huge German communities in Czech Republic, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Balkans, the Baltics, Ukraine, even Kazakhstan, all gone. Maybe they arrived via Germany, so counted as Germans?