![]() The IWW and other radical organizations, or individuals who questioned the existing political order, the tenets of capitalism and the ugliness of industrial profiteering from war, or those who actively campaigned for peace, came in for attack and sometimes even direct oppression that resulted in imprisonment. The hostility extended to radicals as well as Germans and German-Americans. were unhappy with France’s opposition to the Iraq invasion. ![]() This reaction also had its sadly comical components, such as renaming sauerkraut “liberty cabbage.” This particular kind of foolishness surfaced in our own times as French fries became “freedom fries” in 2003 when war hawks in the U.S. A Socialist coal miner refused to purchase a Liberty Bond and narrowly escaped a lynching. ![]() A policeman held a German grocer’s arms behind his back and allowed a banker to beat the man-the grocer was one of Debs’ neighbors. Debs’ hometown of Terre Haute had its share of ugliness. Louis and Cincinnati were particularly affected by the anti-German hysteria. Cities with large German-American populations such as Milwaukee, St. ![]() ![]() Along with this surge of propaganda came a wave of ugly anti-German prejudice that resulted in German language books destroyed, German musicians and artists harassed, and German classical music barred from performance. ![]()
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