What were the economic and social problems in Germany during WW1 (1914-1918)?
In 1917 the Germans knocked the Russians out of the war. The German people believed that victory in the West was just a matter of time. What they didn’t take into account was that Britain, France and the USA did not have ramshackle governments. The British found an acoustic way to triangulate the position of enemy artillery, and after that they caused heavy damage. The winter of 1917-1918 was called the Turnip Winter because the naval blockade of Germany was quite effective at keeping food out. This was a very hungry winter. When the USA reached full strength in the spring of 1918, the Allies scored victory after victory. The German High Command was smart enough to see that the game was up and that if they persisted the Allies would be occupying German soil. So they agreed to an armistice The Kaiser abdicated, there was a relatively serious Communist revolution in Bavaria which was put down by the Freikorps, Army men who loved killing. Out of this chaos came the Weimar Government, whic
