Word: piggott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ugliest Aspect. At Eccles, in Lancashire, one Jack Piggott drew six months' imprisonment for smashing a Jewish-owned shop window and leading a crowd of 700, some of whom shouted what few Britons had ever been expected to shout: "Hitler was right." At Holyhead, a laborer was fined for smashing the windows of two Jewish shops. In London, two women arrested for pitching bricks through Oxford Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole...