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Direct linkFrese, Stephen J. – History Teacher, 2005
The anti-German sentiment during World War I reached a point where "people speaking German on the street were attacked and rebuked." Iowa Governor William L. Harding legitimized such expressions of prejudice and war-time fanaticism when he issued "The Babel Proclamation" on May 23, 1918. Antagonism toward Germans and their…
Descriptors: Languages, War, Patriotism, German
