“Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915

The 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 an...

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Main Author: Paul Thompson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 2015-12-01
Series:Contree
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Online Access:https://newcontree.org.za/index.php/nc/article/view/160