Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914–1924 Mary Elisabeth Cox

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0198820119
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0198820116
• Author: Mary Elisabeth Cox

At the outbreak of the First World War, Great Britain quickly took steps to initiate a naval blockade against Germany. In addition to military goods and other contraband, foodstuffs and fertilizer were also added to the list of forbidden exports to Germany. As the grip of the Blockade strengthened, Germans complained that civilians-particularly women and children-were going hungry because of it. The impact of the blockade on non-combatants was especially fraught during the eight month period of the Armistice when the blockade remained in force. Even though fighting had stopped, German civilians wondered how they would go through another winter of hunger. The issue became internationalised as civic leaders across the country wrote books, pamphlets, and articles about their distress, and begged for someone to step in and relieve German women and children with food aid. Their pleas were answered with an outpouring of generosity from across the world. Some have argued, then and since, that these outcries were based on gross exaggerations based more on political need rather than actual want.

Table contents:

1. The First World War and the Blockade of Germany, 1914–1919

2. German Responses to Food Scarcity

3. Nutritional Deprivation in Urban Leipzig

4. Were Rural Germans Better Off Than Urban Citizens During the War? The Case of Straßburg

5. Nutritional Deprivation of Children Across Germany

6. Armistice and Blockade: November 1918–July 1919

7. Nutritional Deprivation after the Fighting November 1918–July 1919

8. From Blockade to Aid July 1919–1924

9. German Children’s Response to Aid

Index

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