War kitchen
The war kitchen was in the First World War, a soup kitchen for the supply of large segments of the civilian population .
In the countries of the warring parties, the food supply for the civilian population deteriorated in the course of the war. In the German Reich in particular , food production declined, and the food imports on which the Reich was dependent fell sharply due to the blockade measures of the Entente states , especially the British naval blockade in the North Sea .
As a result, there was a food crisis that primarily affected the urban population. Therefore, as early as 1915, charitable associations set up so-called war kitchens to supply the population in order to prevent the worst effects. Mostly soups were handed out.
By the end of the First World War, over 700,000 German civilians had died, which was around 35 percent of those killed on the battlefields. This means that more German civilians were killed from hunger and disease between 1914 and 1918 than there were victims from the Allied bombing raids in World War II .
