Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the numerous original illustrations. See 46186-h.htm or 46186-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46186/46186-h/46186-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/46186/46186-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/cu31924027829666 Transcriber's note: Text enclosed by underscores is in italics (_italics_). [Illustration: _Germany's Youngest Reserve._] GERMANY IN WAR TIME What an American Girl Saw and Heard by MARY ETHEL McAULEY Chicago The Open Court Publishing Company 1917 Copyright by The Open Court Publishing Company 1917 DEDICATION TO MY MOTHER WHO SHARED THE TRIALS OF TWO YEARS IN GERMANY WITH ME PREFATORY NOTE. This book is the product of two years spent in Germany during the great war. It portrays what has been seen and heard by an American girl whose primary interest was in art. She has tried to write without fear or favor the simple truth as it appeared to her. TABLE OF CONTENTS. PAGE Getting into Germany in War Time 1 Soldiers of Berlin 7 The Women Workers of Berlin 20 German "Sparsamkeit" 35 The Food in Germany 49 What We Ate in Germany 62 How Berlin is Amusing Itself in War Time 69 The Clothes Ticket 81 My Typewriter 88 Moving in Berlin 93 What the Germans Read in War Time 98 Precautions Against Spies, etc. 108 Prisoners in Germany 115 Verboten 128 The Mail in Germany 132 The "Ausländerei" 140 War Charities 146 What Germany is Doing for Her Human War Wrecks 159 Will the Women of Germany Serve a Year in the Army? 173 The Kaiserin and the Hohenzollern Princesses 184 A Stroll Through Berlin 196 A Trip Down the Harbor of Hamburg 207 The Krupp Works at Essen 218 Munich in War Time 228 From Berlin to Vienna in War Time 242 Vienna in War Time 256