Source: File: Queue for food.jpg, 2015. Germans had to queue for food, but the
blockade was not the main factor in shortages. Ars
Electronica, CC BY-NC-ND Four. Things We Get Wrong About World War I By
Mark Harrison. [online] Available at:<http://www.realclearworld.com/articles/2014/04/05/four_things_we_get_wrong_about_world_war_i_110415.html> [Accessed:
12 February 2015].
On the German home front, a crisis
Had been rising, to result in minor
riots -
Where shopkeepers of food stores,
Faced a barrage of angry women -
People out on the streets, to number
Hundreds, were seen in Germany’s
Capital - gathered outside grocer's
shops -
They asked, ‘Where can we get
potatoes?’
11 February was a bleak day as Berlin
Shops closed their doors by eleven
a.m.
The sellers found themselves under siege
As the people raged for want of
foodstuff,
The police struggled to keep public
order.
From the date of 15 February,
Denmark
Was to prohibit all potatoe
exportation -
While in Berlin, as across the
country,
Bakeries up to 40 percent were on
verge
Of ruin - with 310 closed within
the capital,
As breweries are ordered to reduce
output.
Local governing bodies had, by then,
Began the process to arrange
provision
For the most needy - but a great
worry
And anxiety filled the German
population.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. German Food Shortage –
No Potatoes in Berlin – Fighting in Shops. The Daily Telegraph, [online]
12 Feb. P.9. Col.3. Available at
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11406379/Daily-Telegraph-February-12-1915.html
[Accessed: 12 February 2015].
Mann, J., 2014. 100 years Ago -
Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication,12 February 2015).
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