Trejo,
You are describing a condition known as the "Brain Drain" begun in the early 'sixties which recruited the brighter young minds of Europe and the UK to advance the US space/military programmes of the time.
Sadly, as the US now has the lowest standard of education of any industrialised nation, such research and/or manufacturing enterprise that has not been outsourced must continue to recruit its creative personnel from abroad. This, however, has little to do with current German emigration which is prompted mostly by domestic conditions, as you must well know.
I once was a corporate pilot for a German company and shared an office with a couple of others who had worked together for at least fifteen years. Yet every morning it was "Grüss Gott, Herr Ploch". "Morgens, Herr Dietz." Admittedly this was some years ago but the formal "Herr Kapitan" and its equivalents still exist but this is an element of germanisch Kultur and certainly not English "German-bashing" as you suggest.
I too miss the camaraderie. Dammit, I miss flying!
