We've had multiple languages enabled for a quite a few years, but are looking to remove due to translations not being updated that frequently and google chrome doing this job for us.

our products are currently listed as  
###.com/uk/product 1
###.com/de/product 2

and want them to look like this
###.com/product 1
###.com/product 2

unticking the box in general setting (SEO friendly URLs with multiple languages enabled) removes the /uk/
but we need to keep the routing and setup a 301 redirect for the search engines.

Should we do this within the code or IIS?
Just looking at the quickest way without generating a huge lookup list.

Thanks