I think the widespread opinion that the Germans lost the war because of hunger is quite mistaken. By 1918 they had already gone hungry for three years, and food had been scarcer in 1917 than in 1918. In my opinion, the Germans abandoned their war effort not because they were starving, but because they thought the war militarily lost and politically without prospect. Be that as it may, the Germans will scarcely give up Nazism or a second world war out of hunger.
