Rising prices, static wages and the shortage of many basic imported raw materials conspired to make Germany in 1916 a very bleak place in which to live. The Chancellor, Bethmann-Hollweg, found himself under fire from both left and right, and his dismissal could not be far away.

This article is located in the History of the First World War Volume 5 (REF D522 .H58 1969 V.5).