Was Germany Really Starved Into Surrender in WW1? (Documentary)

Support us and get 40% off Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/the-great-war Watch 16 Days in Berlin on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/16-days-in-berlin-01-prologue-the-beginning-of-the-end?ref=the-great-war From 1914 to 1919, Allied warships in the Atlantic and Mediterranean controlled maritime trade to and from the Central Powers – stopping shipments of weapons and raw materials, but also food, from reaching their enemies. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of German civilians died of hunger-related causes. Often, these deaths and even the outcome of the war are attributed to the naval blockade – but did the British really starve Germany into surrender in WW1? » SUPPORT THE CHANNEL Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/realtimehistory Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: XX » THANKS TO OUR CO-PRODUCERS Rose Flaglor, Reed Spilmann, Erik Ritter, Cardboard, Ken Brownfield, David Garfinkle, Raymond Martin, Konstantin Bredyuk, Lisa Anderson, Brad Durbin, Jeremy K Jones, Murray Godfrey, John Ozment, Stephen Parker, Mavrides, Kristina Colburn, Stefan Jackowski, Cardboard, William Kincade, William Wallace, Daniel L Garza, Chris Daley, Malcolm Swan, Christoph Wolf, Simen Røste, Jim F Barlow, Taylor Allen, Adam Smith, James Giliberto, Albert B. Knapp MD, Tobias Wildenblanck, Richard L Benkin, Marco Kuhnert, Matt Barnes, Ramon Rijkhoek, Jan, Scott Deederly, gsporie, Kekoa, Bruce G. Hearns, Hans Broberg, Fogeltje » SOURCES Baş, Mehmet Fatih. “War Losses (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)”. In 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. 2017-11-20. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/war-losses-ottoman-empiremiddle-east/ Blücher, Evelyn. An English Wife in Berlin : A Private Memoir of Events, Politics, and Daily Life in Germany throughout the War and the Social Revolution of 1918. E.P. Dutton and Company, 1920. Davis, Belinda. ‘Food and Nutrition: Germany’. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. 8th October 2014. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/food-and-nutrition-germany/ Kramer, Alan. “Blockade and Economic Warfare.” In Winter, Jay (ed) The Cambridge History of the First World War: Volume II The State. Cambridge UP, 2014. Osborne, Eric. W. “Naval Warfare”. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. 8th October 2014. https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/naval-warfare/ Osborne, Eric W. Britain’s Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919. London ; Frank Cass, 2004. Vincent, C. Paul. The Politics of Hunger: The Allied Blockade of Germany, 1915-1919. Ohio University Press, 1986. » OUR SISTER CHANNEL https://youtube.com/realtimehistory »CREDITS Presented by: Jesse Alexander Written by: Jesse Alexander Director: Toni Steller Editing: Philipp Appelt Motion Design: Philipp Appelt Mixing, Mastering & Sound Design: http://above-zero.com Research by: Jesse Alexander, Annabel Blakey Fact checking: Florian Wittig Executive Producer: Florian Wittig Channel Design: Yves Thimian Contains licensed material by getty images, AP and Reuters Maps: MapTiler/OpenStreetMap Contributors & GEOlayers3 All photos and film in our documentaries are authentic historical footage. We do not use generative AI to create new assets. However, we may use AI tools to upscale or clean up certain assets without distorting or compromising the original image. All rights reserved - Real Time History GmbH 2025