Document 1 Evelyn Blucher von Wahlstatt English wife

Document 1: Evelyn Blucher von Wahlstatt, English wife of a German prince, diary. I hear women in the street saying, “Why should we work, why should we starve, send our men out to fight? We’d rather fight for a more just division of the goods of this Earth. The state that called on us to fight cannot even give us decent food, does not treat our men as human beings, but so many nuts and bolts in the great machine of the German army. ” Document 2: Police report sent to the chief of police, Berlin, April 1917. According to the informers, radical labor leaders will make the following demands a their meeting today: 1. Free the party’s leaders 2. Lift the ban on assembly 3. Grant complete freedom of political activity to the party’s leaders 4. Provide sufficient food through state control of distribution 5. Lift martial law 6. End the war without seeking damages or conquests WRITE: Summarize the meaning of the document and then connect these documents to the historical context described in your HW last night. DISCUSS AS CLASS: How might these social documents directly connect to Germany’s political actions toward the end of the war?