Die Wirkung der Hungerblockade auf die Volksgesundheit (1919-1921)

Part One: Blockade and living conditions Illustration of the English blockade in a card trick; empty market hall; filled shop windows of grocery stores in Denmark; empty shop window of the Jewish butcher Bertha Berg in Berlin; other sparsely filled shop windows; textile displays at the shoe store Leiser; auction of oil paintings at the shoe store Stiller; Danish and Dutch horses in contrast to German horses being dragged away; Slaughterhouse full of cattle in peacetime, the empty slaughterhouse in wartime; Goats being led to the slaughterhouse; Trick illustration of the supply of basic foodstuffs in 1913 and during the war; Table of daily calories of rationed foodstuffs 1914-1917; Daily or daily and weekly rations of bread, butter, sugar, milk, and meat; Athletic or well-fed male bodies in peacetime, emaciated bodies in wartime; People searching for something edible in the street garbage.

Part Two: Blockade and Diseases Statistical data on puerperal fever 1912-1919; manifestations of diseases in individual patients during the war: Starvation dropsy (starvation edema), starvation bone softening (starvation malacia), lung consumption, peritoneal tuberculosis, bone and joint tuberculosis, cervical tuberculosis, skin tuberculosis, frostbite and amputation of frostbitten toes; crowds outside a delousing center; head lice and scabies; skin wrinkles due to emaciation; statistics on civilian mortality 1911-1918.

Part Three: The blockade and children. Healthy infants in peacetime in contrast to emaciated infants during the war; work in an infant welfare center, baby wrapped in newspaper; infants with rashes; feeding of children by the American Quaker organization; school physician examining children; presentation of children with tuberculosis and rickets, compared with healthy children of the same age.

Source: Bundesarchiv