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Socialism became very popular in factories due to the harsh working climate with limited pay and reward, lead to strikes and riots and social discord between high and low class. Lead to revolts and mutinies in 1917-18

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The British naval blockade restricted the German war effort taking away 80% of German export market, therefore, unable to fund their war negatively, impacting the home front.

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pre war Germany imported 50% of raw materials and 33% of food needs.

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Germany facilaited military leadership/dictatorship as that is what was needed on the Homefront in order to maximise production

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Employees had to employ women and youth due to the disparity of the male labour force

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- The loss of husbands and father figures many families struggled to live on Government benefits according / Social dislocation, lead to families being torn apart.
- "By 1918 there were a surplus of women of two million women, mainly widows who were trying to live on meagre government benefits" Holger Herwig

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Hindenburg had a production quota of 1,000 aircraft being constructed a month (within final year of war when Hindenburg the most power and the aircraft was being utilized further than just recon, using it in other matters such as bombardment).

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Walter Rathenau in charge of the KRA. Allowed him the power to control man power, all of Germany's raw materials and production and use of synthetic goods

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By 1918, 258 laws were imposed restricting restaurant hours to women's dresses.

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Due to German autocratic history the transtion to total war was more stream line than other WW1 nations

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not allowing civilians to access certain resources to save them for the military, e.g. Rubber, Coal, Fuel, metal, food rationing etc.
This was done giving priority to the military and ignoring civilian needs, lead to deprivation across German home front.

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Because of national service laws a large proportion of the German population was military trained.  Therefore gave them an advantage over the untrained British soldiers

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Winter of 1916 rationing introduced and by 1918, 1 million people had gone on strike. 1917, 562 strikes had been recorded.

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Government control of labour. This did things like authorised the govt to move men from agriculture to industry.

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- great negative impact on economy --> 1915 3 billion marks spent per month
- inflation --> US1 with M40

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- High command influence majority of daily affairs