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World War I felled Berlin’s grand hotel industry in three blows. The first was a shortage of goods, services, and labor; the second, a decline in the quality of the goods and services still available; and the third, a resultant depletion of capital reserves as shortages drove prices out of reach. As the state increased its demands on everyone’s time and energy, managers found themselves unable to devote their full attention to shoring up systems and hierarchies. A grueling four years then ended in ignominy and danger when, in November 1918, political violence surged into hotel lobbies, restaurants, and guest rooms. The fate of Berlin’s grand hotels mirrors the fate of the German Second Empire, which also collapsed in the face of defeat and revolution in the fall of 1918.

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It describes how the new OHL wanted to enforce German war production through the Hindenburg programme, by recruiting a Polish army, and by using Belgian enforced labour for the German war industries.

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11 - Action Stations, Panic Stations: The Radicalisation of Germany’s Strategy under the Third OHL

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11 - Action Stations, Panic Stations: The Radicalisation of Germany’s Strategy under the Third OHL

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