“Throughout Germany, according to reports here, all valuable grain crops &4re burning up as they did in 1915 in an unprecedented heat wave, The prolonged drought has not been broken since early in May. Berlin on Sunday experienced the hottest June 17 on record in the 70 years’ experience of the weather bureau, Tropical temperatures were also reported everywhere west of the Oder river.
The Sunday sermon writer in the Berlin Kreuz Zeitung who recently indulged in a startling blending of religion and politics declared on Sunday that the drought was sent as a punishment for the sins of the people for listening to the editors of irreligious newspapers and asked how long it would be before this divine chastisement would bring the people to a sense of their iniquities”
19 Jun 1917, Page 1 – Argus-Leader at Newspapers.com
h/t Don Penim.
