German Americans abandoned their institutions and language within one generation

Evidence

Native-born generations left farms and villages to live in the cities, where they forgot their mother tongue, enrolled their children in public schools, and joined the urban industrial milieu. By the end of World War I, the number of German American institutions had fallen precipitously. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 412

Categorization

• CANDY: The rapid, total collapse of a once-vibrant ethnic institutional world makes a striking conversational fact.