Women’s Prize for Fiction: who is who on the 2023 shortlist?.Thousands of German and Austrian men were interned or repatriated, many never to return. As news of enemy atrocities reached Britain, the public attacked German businesses: the torpedoing of the passenger ship Lusitania in April 1915, for example, resulted in a “frenzy” of anti-German violence in Liverpool and London. Barely had the war begun than German waiters were sacked. By 1918 this figure had fallen to just six per cent as manual labourers’ wages doubled and the middle classes took more of the tax burden. Yet its greatest division was between rich and poor, with a third of the population of inner London living below the poverty line thanks to low wages and intermittent employment. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENTīefore the war, London was the greatest city in the world - twice the size of Berlin - with a huge proportion of immigrants (including 30,000 Germans, many of whom were waiters, barbers and bakers).
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