For instance, a German soldier reports to the Daily Observer in 1915 that he was enraged because of high prices and food shortages in Germany. The German soldier expresses his strong displeasure over high class citizens who take the soldiers’ inhuman sacrifices for granted and mistreated the women and children(Doc 7). The German soldier is very reliable because he first hand experiences total war, especially because he loses his morality in killing opposing soldiers. Fighting for a country with national pride is one thing, but knowing that civilians who are not “doing the dirty work” and exploiting a community at home is very frustrating, especially for a soldier. Also, German soldiers were unable to return home to protect or check up on their families in the middle of war efforts; this act is a defiance of orders if the soldier neglects to notify his supervisor or is classified as desertion, which is punishable by death. Due to this dissatisfaction with conditions in German cities, many soldiers do not want to fight if it benefits a civilian who is “dead weight.” Also, another example of a German who observes the effects of total war is Evelyn Blucher von Wahlstatt, who records in her diary that several women protest, “The state that called on us to fight cannot even give us decent food, does not treat our men as human beings,”(Doc 8).…