tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post6360501594014638794..comments2023-07-09T18:40:14.439+10:00Comments on Fighting the Kaiser: Coburg, Brunswick and the First World War: Loyal citizens, allcherylghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12674487881309060774noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post-72153297145880726822020-10-12T17:48:14.005+11:002020-10-12T17:48:14.005+11:00Thanks for adding some personal details to this st...Thanks for adding some personal details to this story, Susan. It must have been a tense time for everyone involved. cherylghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12674487881309060774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post-17730602358758385572020-10-11T13:13:39.494+11:002020-10-11T13:13:39.494+11:00just found your blog -always scrounging for for mo...just found your blog -always scrounging for for more information. My father Gordon Cline Mikkelsen was fostered by the Norwegian Mikkelsen's who lived at 1 Kerford St Coburg, as did he until mid WW2. His much older "brothers" whom he adored fought in WW1. My father told me that his mother Anna Karoline Mikkelsen, even between the wars would say to unknown callers "we are Norwegian not German"<br /> Susan Mikkelsenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14228146610695474328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post-65461879842412555882014-01-13T09:54:08.787+11:002014-01-13T09:54:08.787+11:00Thanks for the suggestions, Lenore. I'll do a ...Thanks for the suggestions, Lenore. I'll do a wider search. I have found a number of other instances of so-called 'unpatriotic' utterances, just haven't listed them here. I'll use your suggested search terms though as see what else I find! cherylghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12674487881309060774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6629002092206577063.post-34478120390634322512014-01-10T16:39:43.608+11:002014-01-10T16:39:43.608+11:00Did you have an Anti-German League in Coburg? Sto...Did you have an Anti-German League in Coburg? Stories of shop windows of people with 'foreign names" being broken won't always appear in the newspapers. You have to take into account that any people speaking against the war were not given space in newspapers, or even able to rent halls to speak (eg, the anti-Conscription campaign). Maybe if you do a search on the term "unpatriotic" you might find or "pro-German", or "sympathisers" you might find some of these things.Lenore Frosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16425222424273971365noreply@blogger.com