 Complete the following phrase:  Lindemann has been described as having an almost pathological hatred for Nazi Germany, and an almost medieval desire for revenge was a part of his character. Fearing food shortages in Britain, he convinced Churchill to divert 56 percent of the British merchant ships operating in the Indian Ocean to the Atlantic, a move that added two million tons of wheat as well as raw materials for war fighting to stocks in Britain The Ministry of War Transport warned that such dramatic cuts to shipping capacity in South East Asia would portend violent changes and perhaps cataclysms in the seaborne trade of large numbers of countries but the Ministry was ignored. The menace of famine suddenly loomed up like a hydra-headed monster with a hundred clamouring mouths according to C. B. A. Behrens in the official history of Allied merchant shipping. It has been estimated between 1.5 and 4 million people died during the 