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Yeah, imagine if a free people had been able to spread information contradicting and undermining the Wilson administration: https://www.loc.gov/exhibitions/world-war-i-american-experie...

(It’s worth going through the whole slideshow.)



  The Baraboo fire may have been as much a protest over the difficulty of local 
  German language courses as an expression of anti-German sentiment prevalent 
  across the nation at that time.
Are there easy German language courses?!


There were a lot more German-as-first-language Americans back then than there were later in the 20th Century due to anti-German sentiment.




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