The effects of starvation blockade on people's health (1920-1929)

Germany.

Documentary-educational film about the deteriorating health of the German population as a result of world war 1 and the so-called "hunger blockade."

The Map Of Europe.

The caption on the dependence of Germany on imported food.

The caption on the illegality of the blockade, which began in August 1914 and its incompatibility with the London Convention 1909 on the free import of foodstuffs to the warring countries.

Empty markets in Germany.

Crowded stores in Denmark and Holland.

Germany: the butcher puts the flowers in an empty storefront of his shop.

The bakery window makes empty boxes.

Well-fed and well-fed Dutch and Danish horse.

Skinny German horse.

View of the massacre.

The cattle driven to the slaughter.

Yard slaughter.

Goat meat which are eaten only slaughter cattle in Germany.

Goats on the unloading platform of the slaughterhouse.

Map illustrating the lack of meat in Germany.

Diagrams showing the reduction in the rate of consumption of meat, bread, butter per capita.

Data 1916: instead of the 3,300 calories the average resident of the Reich received only 1344 calories

Germany.

A diagram illustrating the fall of the caloric intake of the German population.

The titer of the low quality of bread.

Defective pieces of bread.

Tiny pieces of butter-diet for the day.

A man spreads butter on a small piece of bread.

Diet sugar for a week - 187 grams.

The man puts on the table daily intake of sugar is 25 grams.

The caption on the lower consumption of milk, the prevalence in the diet of vegetables.

A plate with a meagre portion of meat - 29 grams.

Healthy people before the war.

A few well-fed men.

Haggard blockade men in a strong degree of ithuania.

The portrait of the same man before the war and 4 years later /drastic weight loss/

Germany.

The caption about the lack of raw materials, rubber, essential medicines.

A schematic diagram illustrating the growth of diseases from 1912 to 1919.

Caused by the blockade of the disease: starvation edema, softening of bones.

Patients suffering from these diseases.

X-ray of the bones of the limb affected by softening.

The titer of the striking increase in tuberculosis due to the blockade.

Data on the incidence of tuberculosis is reduced from 1886 to 1914 Patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Radiograph of the lung affected by tuberculosis

Germany.

Sick child in bed.

Demonstration skinny arms and legs.

Bone tuberculosis, tuberculosis of the joints.

Patients with these diseases.

Children with amputated joints, limbs.

A child with TB of the glands of the throat.

The growth pattern of tuberculosis from 1914 to 1918.

Limbs of patients affected by various skin diseases.

Frostbitten and amputated limbs.

The reason for the lack of shoes.

Titers of lice among the population during the war.

The crowd at the disinfection point.

The hands of the people eaten by the mange and eczema due to the lack of soap, basic hygiene.

Skinny male.

The curve of his weight from 1914 to 1920 /drop from 115 to 65 kg/.

The caption is about the high mortality rate of the civilian population during the war.

Scheme of increased mortality from 1915 to 1918, All died of 770 000 people are victims of the embargo, contrary to the principles of humanism and international law

Germany.

The titer of the authenticity of all the shooting.

Well-fed babies before the war.

Skinny children during the war / shooting from orphanages /.

Thrown baby, wrapped in a newspaper.

A child suffering from skin rashes.

Exhausted young people - boys and girls.

Exhausted children in profile and full face.

Feeding children a charitable organization of Quakers from the United States.

Children queue for food. malnourished children.

Children suffering from rickets, malnutrition, weakness.

Boy 13 years old, looking like an 8-year-old.

Exhausted girl.

Children suffering from scrofula / inflammation of the eyes /.

Children with rickets