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Germany invaded the Netherlands in the spring of 1940. Life in occupied Holland was hideous enough, but for the Dutch the worst was yet to come. After the Western Allies lost the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944, the Dutch provinces north of the Rhine and Waal Rivers were in the hands of the Germans, and to the south fighting raged for months. In the winter of 1944–45, just as other parts of Europe were being liberated, the Dutch seemed forsaken by the Allies, who bypassed Holland on their drive to Berlin.
That last winter of the war, with its severe food and fuel shortages, was a terrible one for the Dutch people, who also suffered from episodes of Nazi terrorism. In some provinces there was nothing to eat but tulip bulbs and sugar beets, and eighteen thousand Dutch civilians actually starved to death. Henri van der Zee, who was ten years old that winter, remembers what happened to his people.
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Kris Rindahl
reviewed The Hunger Winter on November 12, 2010
The Hunger Winter
This was, for obvious reasons, not an easy book to read. And as I am now living in Holland, it was somewhat strange to imagine places I am familiar with under the bleak conditions which existed during the horrible winter of 1944-1945. Reading histories like this give insight into the personality of a people that still have memories of hardship I can't even imagine; I can even understand more clearly their adoration of the current queen, whose grandmother, in exile, became a was champion of a starving nation. The author of the book was just a child during that winter, but his memories are vivid, and supplemented by extensive research. I recommend this book.
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