The Germans are still reading German. They lost.

The Japanese are also still reading Japanese, despite losing.

(this isn't because we're nice guys and the Germans and Japanese aren't...it's because culture is a very powerful thing, and it outlasts temporary storms and setbacks like lost wars)

The French continued speaking French, reading French, and writing French without a moment's hesitation during the entire German military occupation of France from 1940 to late '44. I recall no German iniative to alter that fact, and none could have achieved its purpose.

The French in Quebec are still speaking and reading French, despite having lost to English rule in the mid-1700's!

I think my point is made.

This cliche crap about us all reading and speaking German if our parents or grandparents had lost the war may sound good, but it's total and absolute BS in my opinion. That won't stop people from saying it for another fifty years, however...unless we have a Third World War. Then their minds will be occupied with some new monster to build mythology upon...but not the Germans this time, I don't think. Nope, someone else will have to be appointed as the official "most evil nation of all time" soon.