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by 8372049 910 days ago
The reason German(y) was widely unpopular after WW2 wasn't primarily because they lost.

ETA: They lost WW1 too, but German remained our #1 foreign language.
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dragonwriter 910 days ago
OTOH, the reason those feelings were free to be expressed...
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8372049 910 days ago
Yeah, we would all be speaking German now if they had won. But to put it another way, German remained the second language after they lost WW1.
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Hunpeter 908 days ago
>we would all be speaking German >now if they had won I hope you're saying this as a joke/deliberate hyperbole.
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