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Chapter 8
The First World War: The Home Front and War’s End
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Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)
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The Kaiser Speaks from the Balcony of the Royal Palace (August 1, 1914)
“Woe, when he’s let loose!” (August 2, 1914)
Mass Rally in Front of Feldherrnhalle in Munich – Adolf Hitler in the Crowd (August 2, 1914)
The Socialists Support the War (August 4, 1914)
The Origins of the German Army (1914)
“Gifts of Love”: Pharmaceutical Donations for Troops at War (1914)
“The Traffic in Foreigners is Picking Up!” (September 1914)
A Separate Peace with Russia? (November 19, 1914)
The Manifesto of the Ninety-Three: “To the Civilized World!” (October 4, 1914)
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf (1925)
Friedrich Meinecke, The German Catastrophe: Reflections and Recollections (1946)
Ludwig Thoma, Der erste August [The First of August] (1915)
Censorship Guidelines (I) (1914)
Censorship Guidelines (II) (1914)
Censorship in Practice (1914–1916)
German Army Postal Service: Loading the Mail Bags (Juni 1915)
Paul Warncke, German Women (1915)
The Female Streetcar Conductor (1915)
Suppression of Anti-War Sentiment (November 1915)
“Hold Out!”: Postcard (1915)
Preventive Detention (December 4, 1916)
The Powers of the Deputy Commanding Generals (1915)
Germany’s Industrial Leaders on War Aims (1915)
Rathenau and the Organization of the Wartime Economy (1916)
Werner Sombart, Merchants and Heroes [Händler und Helden] (1915)
Ludwig Quidde: The Central Office for International Law (1916)
Ludwig Quidde: Historian, Politician, and Peace Activist (undated)
Propaganda Film With Our Heroes at the Somme (1916)
The German “Peace Offer” (December 5, 1916)
The Hindenburg Program (1916)
Auxiliary Service Law (December 1916)
Women on the Home Front (1917)
Civil-Military Tensions: Letter from Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg to Field Marshall von Hindenburg (1917)
Erich Ludendorff vs. Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (July 1917)
A Propaganda Film for War Bonds: Our Homeland’s Trenches (1916)
War Bonds (March 1917)
War Bonds (1917)
Berlin School Children Campaigning for War Bonds (1917)
Rudolf Havenstein, Call for Subscription to the 7th War Bond Issue (September 1917)
“Patriotic Enlightenment” (May 10, 1917)
Engelbert Krebs, “On the Meaning of Sacrifice” [“Vom Opfersinn”] (1914–15)
Johann Plenge, 1789 and 1914 (1916)
Rosa Luxemburg: War and the Working Class (January 1916)
Labor‘s Vision of Collective Bargaining (March 1918)
Thomas Mann, “Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man” (1918)
Dancing the Polonaise (August 1916)
Propaganda Postcard: “Germany Gives Thanks to Her Heroes” (1916)
“Muslim POWs Celebrating Ramadan Bayram” (1916)
Disabled Veterans Do Calisthenics (c. 1917)
War Refugees in Russia (1917)
The Ceasefire on the Eastern Front (1917)
The “Peace Dove” of the Entente (January 1917)
Philipp Scheidemann’s Reichstag Speech Demanding Peace (May 5, 1917)
Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg, Speech on Germany’s Situation in the Fourth Year of the War (October 17, 1917)
The Call for a Moderate Peace (December 4, 1917)
German-Russian Negotiations in Brest-Litovsk (December 1917)
“Germany’s Peace Offer” (December 1917)
Rationing in Principle
Food Rationing (1917)
Rationing in Practice: Queuing for Food (October 1917)
The Exalted Song of the Rutabaga (1917)
Food Distribution by the Teltower War Provisions Management Society (1917)
Anti-British Propaganda Film: The Polyp (1917)
The Impact on Popular Morale (March 1917)
Free Children’s Food Program (1917)
War Loan Poster: “Through Work to Victory! Through Victory to Peace!” (1918)
The Black Market (August 1916 and April 1918)
“The Effects of the Starvation Blockade on Public Health” (1921)
Hunger: Ernst Gläser, Born in 1902 (1928)
Weekly Rations (October 1918)
Confiscation of Metals (1918)
The Strikes of January 1918
William Nigh, My Four Years in Germany (1918)
The Third Supreme Command and German War Aims (May 11, 1918)
The First German Note to President Woodrow Wilson (October 1918)
The First World War: Mobilization, Trench Warfare, and “T...