The Hanging of Robert Prager

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When the United States entered World War I, President Wilson needed to create a nation of patriots. But the manipulation of the media had unintended consequences such as the night when a German immigrant named Robert Prager was lynched by a mob in Collinsville, Illinois.
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6 ноя 2018

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@jamesbrown4092 5 лет назад

Shocking how people may consider themselves good and righteous, while simultaneously divesting themselves of any semblance of human decency.

@davidschilling4861 5 лет назад

My grandfather, Charles Schilling of Kankakee Illinois, was also threatened with violence if he did not buy bonds to prove his loyalty to America. He had to mortgage the farm to buy them. It took him most of the rest of his life to pay that loan off. The army also “drafted” two of his horses. One named Bill, was my fathers favorite. He was 8 years old at the time. He always talked about Bill.

@carljacobs1260 5 лет назад

My Mom was born in 1921. Her entire ancestry was German her grandparents having been immigrants in the 1880s. Her family spoke German until WWI. I asked her once "Mom, how was your family treated during the first World war?" She just looked at me and started to cry. It's the only time I ever saw her do that in her entire life.

@tondriasanders6306 4 года назад

Such a heartbreaking story, for Mr. Prager and our country. What a disgrace.

@swflfishing2902 2 года назад

If they taught actual history in school, we would have less problems in the world.

@b.p.879 Год назад

This is how some right wingers would act if they had their way, even today.

@BELCAN57 5 лет назад

A prime example of "The Psychology of the Mob".

@badhat3051 5 лет назад

history repeats its self if you refuse to learn from it

@originalbluebuddha 4 года назад

Mob violence is in all cases grossly unjust and un-American and horrific. It's to be avoided at all cost. It's almost always aided by the press. A lesson we're learning again here in 2020.

@devinpetersen2387 5 лет назад

Those who murdered a innocent man should have been hung just like they did to their victim. They didn't even give him the hangman's knot.

@09Silverbull 5 лет назад

This is the good stuff, the History that they would never teach in a public school. Thank you again History Guy.

@jerrylong381 5 лет назад

Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.

@garywinstanley7519 5 лет назад

The hypnotic trance of patriotism and the sycophantic crowd it creates. RIP. Robert Prager.

@claudettes9697 5 лет назад

Thank you for telling us about him. Poor man just trying to work. I tried not to cry.

@mortalclown3812 2 года назад

There are rising numbers of those - even in the US Congress - who have lynch mob mentalities. That, in itself, is a frightening preamble to what's happening in our land; here's praying we're still home of the brave that can fight this awful wave.

@thomasmcgeehan9979 5 лет назад

I absolutely Love the way this man teaches History.

@genericamerican7574

This one is definitely history that deserves to be remembered and maybe even reposted.

@dominoscr 5 лет назад

Some events deserve to be remembered and some like this should never be forgotten.

@daveleader1557 5 лет назад

Most people won't realize, that we are only a breath away, from this happening, this very day

@Ancienregime8090 4 года назад

I live in Collinsville, Illinois. I attended the highschool's graduation and the author of "Patriotic Murder" gave a speech about Robert Prager. Almost no one knew what he was talking about. The fact that our town murdered a man in cold blood was hidden throughout the generations. It's sickening. He was hung down the road from the fucking bakery.