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21. The Writing on the Wall
1492 The term is used in : Hans Loewenfeld-Russ, Die Regelung der Volksernährung im Kriege (= Wirt-
schafts- und Sozialgeschichte des Weltkrieges, österreichische und ungarische Serie, edited by the
Carnegie-Stiftung für internationalen Frieden, Vienna/New Haven, 1926), 55.
1493 Johann E. Pattera, Der gemeinsame Ernährungsausschuss 1917–1918, doctoral thesis, Vienna, 1971, 27.
1494 The National Archives, Kew (hereafter TNA, Kew), Cab 37/157, Report by William von Max- Müller
dated 16.10.1916 on the economic situation of the Central Powers in September 1916, here esp. 21–39.
1495 TNA, Kew, FO 371/2602, Horace Rumbold (Bern) to Viscount Grey, 9.11.1916.
1496 Maureen Healy, Exhibiting a War in Progress : Entertainment and Propaganda in Vienna, 1914–1918,
in : Austrian History Yearbook, Vol. XXXI (2000), 57–85. Posters for the exhibition e.g. in the Öster-
reichische Nationalbibliothek KS 16215882.
1497 TNA, Kew, FO 371/2602, Report 30.8.1916.
1498 Sandgruber, Ökonomie und Politik, 325.
1499 Urban, Die tschechische Gesellschaft, 846.
1500 TNA, Kew FO 371/2602, Report by Horace Rumbold (Bern) on conditions in Vienna, 9.11.1916.
1501 For more precise data on requirements and the provision of food, see Horst Haselsteiner, The Habsburg
Empire in World War I : Mobilization of Food Supplies, in : East Central European Society in World
War I, edited by Béla K. Király and Nándor F. Dreisziger (= War and Society in East Central Europe
XIX, Boulder, 1985), 87–102.
1502 Loewenfeld-Russ, Volksernährung, 61.
1503 Kriegsarchiv (Austrian War Archives ; hereafter KA), Schneller Tagebuch, 26.1.1917.
1504 Országos Leveltár (National Archives of Hungary, Budapest), semi-official documents by the Hungar-
ian Prime Minister, Box 467.
1505 Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv (Austrian State Archives ; hereafter HHStA), Cabinetts Archiv, Ungar-
ische Ministerratsprotokolle, Box 36, 2.4.1917.
1506 Pattera, Ernährungsausschuss, 31.
1507 Loewenfeld-Russ, Volksernährung, 106.
1508 Ibid., 111.
1509 Ibid.
1510 Vermes, Tisza, 271.
1511 See Marion Breiter, Hinter der Front. Zum Leben der Zivilbevölkerung im Wien des Ersten Welt-
kriegs, doctoral thesis, University of Vienna, 1991, here esp. 64–67.
1512 Breiter, Hinter der Front, 67.
1513 KA, Nachlass B/3, Bolfras, Mappe C, f. 358 et seq.
1514 Ibid., report by Höfer to Conrad, 12.11.1916.
1515 Jan Galandauer, Der misslungene Kampf des letzten Königs von Böhmen um die Rettung seines
Thrones, in : Karl I. (IV.). Der Erste Weltkrieg und das Ende der Donaumonarchie, edited by Andreas
Gottsmann (= Publikationen des Historischen Instituts beim österreichischen Kulturforum in Rom,
Abhandlungen, Vol. 14, Vienna, 2007), 148 et seq.
1516 Redlich, Schicksalsjahre, Vol. 2, 259 et seq., 14.1.1917 and 297, 13.5.1917.
1517 Pattera, Ernährungsausschuss, 36.
1518 Ottokar Landwehr von Pragenau, Hunger. Die Erschöpfungsjahre der Mittelmächte 1917/18 (Zürich/
Leipzig/Vienna, 1931), 11.
1519 KA, Schneller Tagebuch, 3.12.1916, which also presents the reports and dispatches received via the
Turkish headquarters.
THE FIRST WORLD WAR
and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918
- Title
- THE FIRST WORLD WAR
- Subtitle
- and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1914 – 1918
- Author
- Manfried Rauchensteiner
- Publisher
- Böhlau Verlag
- Location
- Wien
- Date
- 2014
- Language
- English
- License
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-3-205-79588-9
- Size
- 17.0 x 24.0 cm
- Pages
- 1192
- Categories
- Geschichte Vor 1918
Table of contents
- 1 On the Eve 11
- 2 Two Million Men for the War 49
- 3 Bloody Sundays 81
- 4 Unleashing the War 117
- 5 ‘Thank God, this is the Great War!’ 157
- 6 Adjusting to a Longer War 197
- 7 The End of the Euphoria 239
- 8 The First Winter of the War 283
- 9 Under Surveillance 317
- 10 ‘The King of Italy has declared war on Me’ 355
- 11 The Third Front 383
- 12 Factory War and Domestic Front, 1915 413
- 13 Summer Battle and ‘Autumn Swine’ 441
- 14 War Aims and Central Europe 469
- 15 South Tyrol : The End of an Illusion (I) 497
- 16 Lutsk :The End of an Illusion (II) 521
- 17 How is a War Financed ? 555
- 18 The Nameless 583
- 19 The Death of the Old Emperor 607
- 20 Emperor Karl 641
- 21 The Writing on the Wall 657
- 22 The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution 691
- 23 Summer 1917 713
- 24 Kerensky Offensive and Peace Efforts 743
- 25 The Pyrrhic Victory : The Breakthrough Battle of Flitsch-Tolmein 769
- 26 Camps 803
- 27 Peace Feelers in the Shadow of Brest-Litovsk 845
- 28 The Inner Front 869
- 29 The June Battle in Veneto 895
- 30 An Empire Resigns 927
- 31 The Twilight Empire 955
- 32 The War becomes History 983
- Epilogue 1011
- Afterword 1013
- Acknowledgements and Dedication 1019
- Notes 1023
- Selected Printed Sources and Literature 1115
- Index of People and Places 1155