During my research on the suffrage movement during World War 1, I came across this phrase: "an anti-German hysteria so irrational that a movement was afoot to rename sauerkraut 'liberty cabbage
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Anti-German hysteria was quite fervant in Canada. They renamed Berlin, Ontario to Kitchener and there were reports of wiener-dogs and other breeds associated with Germany being beaten in public. Quite a sick time. But hey, it was all part of the war to end all wars.
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