The irony is that one of the reasons Germans are forced to switch to English is because the majority of refugees don’t speak German, they speak English.
we had a german exchange student 2002. Her family was from Halle in the east, but the wall was down. her mother was a psychiatrist and her father a dentist. Their income tripled when the wall fell and they sent their son and then daughter to school in California.
The daughter told us their father said, if you want to do business in germany you have to learn English. She also spoke French.
We had a French student the year before and she spoke spanish French and english.