0h 23min, aug 18, 1918 y - German-American farmer John Meints of Minnesota was tarred and feathered for not supporting war bond drives.

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German Americans were calling for neutrality, but proclaimed that if a war came they would be loyal to the United States. Once war started, they were harassed in so many ways that historian Carl Wittke noted in 1936, it was "one of the most difficult and humiliating experiences suffered by an ethnic group in American history.

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