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Specific reasons for language change from German to the national language usually derive from the desire of many Germans to belong to their new communities after the end of World War II.

This is a common feature amongst the German minorities in Latin America and those in Central and Eastern Europe: the majority of countries where German minorities lived had fought against the Germans during the war.

With this change in situation the members of the German minorities, previously communities of status and prestige, were turned into undesirable minorities ( though there were widespread elements of sympathy for Germany in many South American countries as well ).