Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. Peter Stehman, Patriotic Murder: A World War I Hate Crime for Uncle Sam. Lincoln, NE: Potomac Books, 2018. Erik Kirschbaum, Burning Beethoven: The Eradication of German Culture in the United States during World War I. New York, NY: Berlinica, 2015. External links 1918 Lynching of Robert Prager, Collection of contemporary newspaper accounts by Stephen Davies, Dept of History, VIU Lynching of Robert Prager, SIUE 1888 births 1918 deaths German emigrants to the United States People from Collinsville, Illinois American coal miners Anti-German sentiment in the United States People murdered in Illinois Male murder victims Lynching deaths in Illinois People from Dresden Racially motivated violence against European Americans