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During the WW1 the British blockade effectively isolated Germany, depriving that country of agricultural products and foodstuffs, thus creating heavy problems of nourishment especially for the civilians.

The consequences of the blockade for the German war efforts were lower because Germany was rich of the necessary raw materials and could purchase them from Norway and Sweden, having the control over the Baltic Sea.

Germany's response to the blockade was given by the actions of their submarines and auxiliaries cruisers led mainly against the enemy's merchant fleets.

Furthermore, in 1916 the German Navy made a sortie in the North Sea with the bulk of her fleet in order to break the blockade and inflict heavy losses to the British Home Fleet. But the British Admiralty knew the German's secret communication code and was able, by taking proper countermeasures, to prevent his fleet of being overwhelmed.

The battle that ensued lasted from May 31st through June 2nd and signed a tactical German victory because of the major losses suffered in number of ship, tonnage and human casualties by the British, but the latter gained a strategic victory because the German Fleet didn't dare to defy again that of their adversary for the remnant of the war, becoming, excepted for the submarines and a few of light units, a so called "Fleet in Being".

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