tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post2913752747125102640..comments2023-09-20T14:18:32.900+02:00Comments on Obscene Desserts: Britain: a land of Dichter und Denker?JCWoodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-46893776019491257402009-04-16T12:25:00.000+02:002009-04-16T12:25:00.000+02:00It's strange how that happens. There was a neighbo...It's strange how that happens. There was a neighbourhood in Baltimore that I often drove through when I lived there that was once (late 19th/early 20th centuries) predominantly Polish. It no longer is, but there are old buildings (banks, churches) with polish words chiselled into their façades and entry-ways. <br /><br />According to Panikos Panayi's book, <I>Immigration, Ethnicity and Racism in Britain 1815-1945</I>, Germans were the second largest immigrant group in Britain until 1891 (when they were overtaken by Jews from Russia and Poland). (The Irish were number one.)<br /><br />As I mentioned a while back, <A HREF="http://obscenedesserts.blogspot.com/2008/07/cantankerous-prosy-and-full-of-mutual.html" REL="nofollow">they sound like a lot of fun.</A>I didn't know about Bohle. Surely a native son to be proud of....JCWoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02585322642151280666noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31265055.post-62501748542884582082009-04-16T11:52:00.000+02:002009-04-16T11:52:00.000+02:00There's still a German church...it's one of the sa...There's still a German church...it's one of the sad things about Bradford that all this just vanished. People changed their names and eliminated all traces. No surprise, really; we even had our own Nazi, Ernst-Wilhelm Bohle, the head of the Nazi Party Organisation of Germans Abroad and Rudolf Hess's right hand man, born in Bradford in 1903.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17153530634675543954noreply@blogger.com