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dc.contributor.authorThompson, Paul
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-11T06:59:05Z
dc.date.available2016-11-11T06:59:05Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.citationThompson, P. 2015. “Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 74:90-111, Dec. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969]en_US
dc.identifier.issn0379-9867
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10394/19391
dc.description.abstractThe Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee was an extra legal body which discovered disloyal persons of German extraction in the city following the riots caused by the German torpedoing of the British passenger liner Lusitania in May 1915. A public indignation meeting created the Committee and gave it a broad mandate to ferret out suspect enemy aliens. The European polity of Pietermaritzburg was essentially British; there were relatively few Germans, so the Committee worked quickly. It discovered no disloyalty, but it did discover much intimidation by so-called patriots, which it condemned. It is easy to see its work as an anti-German witch-hunt, but it also served as safety valve for passions inflamed by the Lusitania atrocity.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSchool for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West Universityen_US
dc.subjectAnti-German Demonstrationsen_US
dc.subjectLusitania Riotsen_US
dc.subjectGreat Waren_US
dc.subjectWorld War Ien_US
dc.subjectPietermaritzburg; Vigilance Committeeen_US
dc.subjectFS Tathamen_US
dc.subjectJG Maydonen_US
dc.subjectPH Tayloren_US
dc.title“Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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