‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18

Auerbach, Sascha

Abstract

The study of the state's interventionist role on the home front, and the increased regulation of minority groups in particular, have become an important component to our historical understanding of how modern British society changed during the First World War. 1 By and large, the focus of investigation has been on conscription, the internment of German civilians, censorship and propaganda, economic policy, the passage of wartime emergency measures and how the latter demonstrated the shifting norms of class and gender in British society. 2 Surprisingly little, however, has been said about the daily enforcement and adjudication of law, and what this can tell us about the historical significance of policing and local courtrooms in shaping public discourses of immigration, minority status and national identity during wartime. In contrast to previous studies, this article presents the wartime state in the local context and looks at how the daily activity of local courts and police changed

Citation

Auerbach, S. (2020). ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18. Twentieth Century British History, 31(4), 503–529. https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz046

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 17, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Feb 7, 2020
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Deposit Date: Dec 12, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 8, 2022
• Journal: Twentieth Century British History
• Print ISSN: 0955-2359
• Electronic ISSN: 1477-4674
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 503–529
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz046
• Keywords: History
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3541483
• Publisher URL: https://academic.oup.com/tcbh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/tcbh/hwz046/5729927
• Additional Information: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in Twentieth Century British History following peer review. The version of record Sascha Auerbach, ‘You Have Lost All That Is German of You in the Dock’: Immigrant Communities and the Wartime State in London, 1914–18, Twentieth Century British History is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/tcbh/hwz046