Tom Woods on the World War I blockade against Germany

Think back to World War I, when the Allies continued their starvation blockade of Germany for four months after that country surrendered.  Estimates of the consequences of that policy range from 750,000 to 1 million German civilians dead from hunger.

Within a generation, as you will recall, a rather distasteful political party emerged there, whose members, generally young, remembered having nearly been starved to death as children.  Resentment over past injustices has been a powerful and destructive force in recent history.

~ Thomas E. Woods, Jr., "Lift U.S. Sanctions: They Choke The Tyrannized More Than The Tyrants," Investor's Business Daily, March 19, 2001