Near the beginning of episode 2 of Band of Brothers one of the captured Germans is an American who "answered the call of the motherland" before the US joined WW2

by Drdickles

Did a considerable amount of German-Americans actually join Germany before 1941, or was this just for the plot to make it more interesting?

tim_mcdaniel

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