Talk:Blockade of Germany (1939–1945)

Sources

I've just marked this article as being original research as most of the references it quotes are World War Two era news reports (which are intrinsically problematic due to wartime censorship and propaganda) and documents from national archives. There are many post-war secondary sources on this topic which provide a much more rounded view of things. Nick-D (talk) 09:58, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Some comments

I offered to conduct an informal review of this article during a discussion with Godwhale (talk · contribs) on my talk page, and here are my comments:

• The article is nicely written and very comprehensive. As an economist and World War II-nerd, I found it to be very interesting.
• The material on the non-blockade related diplomatic and political events in the lead up to the war could be trimmed a bit (Wikipedia has - or should have! - articles on all the main developments which can be linked to)
• As noted above, the article would benefit from more references, especially to post-war assessments.
• The article could be illustrated with maps, graphs and photos
• The article contains substantial amounts of material on topics which aren't directly relevant to the topic of the article (for instance, German attacks on Britain, the British war economy, Allied air raids on inland German cities, Allied aid to the USSR, the Pacific War and the supply problems of the Allied armies in western Europe). This should be removed from this article, though the material would be useful the individual articles on these topics.
• RAF Coastal Command's campaign against German shipping should be covered (though it wasn't very effective for most of the war) Nick-D (talk) 11:43, 26 June 2011 (UTC)

Illegal

The blockade was illegal under the Hague Convention of 1907. (5.81.223.89 (talk) 18:19, 21 March 2016 (UTC))

It wasn't, as neither Germany nor Italy were islands or were dependent upon shipping in any way for food as they had the whole of the continent of Europe to draw upon for food imports - over land.

The fact that these two countries so antagonised their continental neighbours such that many of the latter preferred not to do business with them was no fault of either Britain or France. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.247.9 (talk) 13:26, 1 January 2018 (UTC)