Kitchener, Ont.
The city of Kitchener, of course, has already gone through one politically correct name change. In the anti-German fervour of the First World War, the city’s original name of Berlin was stricken from the record and replaced with the most British-sounding word imaginable. But the city’s namesake, Field Marshal Herbert Kitchener, has also been called a war criminal. As commander of British forces during the Boer War, he oversaw the establishment of civilian concentration camps to combat the Boer insurgency. More than 26,000 women and children died of disease in the camps.
Lord Kitchener seen in a WWl recruiting poster.
