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Spy mania and anti-German sentiment
Fear of a conflict and xenophobia, fuelled by the extreme situation, created a climate of suspicion and spy mania. Shops were pillaged if their owner had a “foreign”-sounding name. Commercial premises were ransacked including the company Maggi, Téléphone privé and the furrier, Reinsberg et Frank…All over, Liebig billboards were vandalised, as they were thought to have been erected to direct and guide foreign armies.