Did a considerable amount of German-Americans actually join Germany before 1941, or was this just for the plot to make it more interesting?
(Edited to add Searocksandtrees's links to make this a more useful bag o' links.)
If you do a search in this group for
band of brothers
you will find so very many postings where this question was asked.
Most have been archived, though, so you can't followup there. So this is not to discourage further questions, rebuttals, or points.