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Description: | C. Clauson (b1891) was interviewed for an oral history by the historian Raphael Samuel in 1974. He spent his early years in Bow, and speaks here of German pork butchers in the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, as well as the strength of anti-German sentiment during the First World War. Many pork butchers were German immigrants. During the First World War, there was violent anti-German feeling in Britain. This led to attacks on Germans and their businesses. Mr. Clauson speaks of a mob raiding the shop of a German pork butcher who worked near his house. This attack seems particularly thoughtless, as the owner?s son had actually lost a leg serving in the British Army against the Germans. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | Bishopsgate Institute | Rights holder: | Bishopsgate Institute | Subjects: | Migration and Citizenship Communities London at War | Temporal: | 1974 | Source: | Bishopsgate Institute | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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