Yes it was. And the German government put an ad in the New York papers warning passengers that it was carrying arms and would be sunk if they could find it.
And by the way, at that moment, we were neutral. The Royal Navy guaranteed they would sink any American ship carrying ANY cargo into a German port.
But it’s ok when the Brits do it.
The reality is that the German effort to blockade Britain was exactly precisely the same as the Brits were doing to Germany. It’s deeply misguided to conflate WWI Germany with WWII nazi Germany.
Another difference. The German WWI soldier had the vote and had for decades. Most British soldiers had no right to vote. Only property owners. They did not gain that right until after the war.
So in the war to make the world safe for democracy, the bad guys were the ones who actually got to vote. WWI is a crazy thing to start looking deeper into.
Indeed. There were no saints in Europe. Oh those poor Belgians, oh you mean the ones who were committing atrocities in the Congo?