Readers' blog: The end of Great War didn’t signify end to killing

The Great War did not end on November 11, 1918. The fighting stopped but a one-sided killing by other means continued into 1919, and was actually intensified.

The starvation blockade of Germany by the Royal Navy was extended by now having access to the Baltic: German trade with Scandinavia was blocked, and death by starvation under the supervision of the British occupation continued until June 28, 1919, when a weak, conciliatory German government signed a false confession of war guilt in the name of the German people, absolving Britain of responsibility for the war it declared on August 4, 1914, and laying the ground on which Nazism developed.