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These are 2 separate points, not dissimilar but here is why.
It was never a question of the US government grabbing all the technical knowledge, paperwork, scientists and products of the war machines that lost for their own. To the victors goes the spoils, and we did much, Operation Paperclip and others saw to that. Because we needed to know what they knew and put that together with what we didn't. Not only the obvious rocket programs that in 15 years helped propel the US to the moon, but other research like swept wings for aircraft, advances in electric submarines on battery and hydrodynamics to produce faster and better subs(ironically, the early Romeo or Whiskey class diesel-electric subs from the soviets was near enough a direct copy of the type 21 German subs).
But here is the interesting point. Werner Von Braun was a card carrying nazi, but his ideology went as far as to join the programs to allow him to accomplish his goals, to make rockets. Even in Houston and Cape Canaveral, as the TV show joked, you came into space command and said "hiel hitler" and you would get a response. Also, if you ever heard of the hitler youth program, it was basically the nazi boy scouts, but with artillery. Yet, we prosecuted them for that. What was not realized, is that because of the german government, at the time, was very biased towards hiring people that were part of those programs. So, in 1938, if you were 20 and looking for a job, because the government was biased, in order to do any sort of work, you had to be part of these pro-nazi groups.
The eaziest way to find out how much a german community there is, is to do a restaurant sesrch for german style beer halls or sausage places. But Wisconsin is very german, not unlike Germantown section around Philly. It is the similar climates they those immigrants saught that reminded them of their homelands, which if you look is why Argentina was also a destination for Germans, as it was the mirror of where Germany was but in the southern hemisphere. Sometimes it is that simple.