READ and SOAPS Evelyn Blücher's "The Home Front" (primary source.) WRITE a blog post in which you explain the take-away point and the significance of the source. How might you use this source to prove a thesis about nationalism and the Great War?

Evelyn Blücher portrays the scarcity of all the food sources and how the population is struggling to survive until the harvest is the main focus of “The Home Front”. The hardships that the civilians had to endure while all the supplies were being used for the soldiers in the war were devastating. The name of the article, “Home Front”, is itself showing the affect of the war on its civilians. Home Front’s definition is that the war is fought to the extent to the civilians. No one is a civilian and everybody is part of the war, which gives the enemies the liberty to attack them. The civilians of Berlin were suffering in the duration of the entire war, not because of the war and battle itself, but because of the poverty that struck the country. The question of food was always the topic on everybody’s’ minds because they never knew whether they would have enough food to survive that day. Irony takes place in the war because while the soldiers are fighting for nationalism and for their country, they are making their civilians of the country suffer in the process. The Great War was meant for the countries to fight for their own country and to aid their country in gaining more power. But at the same time, they are putting their country in hardship because of the unusual amount of supplies that they are sending to the armed forces to help the soldiers fight the war. The suffering that the civilians had to endure destroyed the purpose of the war, to gain power and nationalism for each country.