 It accordingly appeared that the Spirit of 1914 was universal.The memory of Spirit of August 1914 persisted even when the actual support for the war waned with the horrifying casualties on the front and the terrible hunger on the home front caused by the British blockade of Germany.During the Weimar Republic, the popular perception that Germany had been stabbed in the back rendered the public vulnerable to the Nazis, who embraced the language of the Spirit of 1914 with their aim of seizing power throughout Germany.