America's Teutophobic Panic of 1917 The current threat from (or hysteria over) “domestic terrorists” is often compared to incidents in Nazi Germany. Yet a better analog might be the Wilson administration’s demonization of German-Americans in 1917.https://www.takimag.com/article/tracking-the-teutons/ …
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There's a very moving section of Steinbeck's East of Eden describing how the people of Salinas pathetically bullied the industrious village German during the war:pic.twitter.com/R2QLgBvcIp
