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The Hunger Winter
Occupied Holland, 1944-1945
by Van Der Zee, Henri A
Hitler’s Germany invaded neighbouring the Netherlands in May 1940. Life in occupied Holland was hideous enough, but for the Dutch people 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 remained under Germans control. In the winter of 1944-45, just as other parts of Europe were being liberated, the Dutch seemed abandoned 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 terrible for the Dutch, who also suffered from other forms of Nazi terrorism. In some provinces there was nothing left to eat but tulip bulbs and sugar beets. Eighteen thousand Dutch civilians starved to death and many others never forgot their gnawing hunger in those months. Henri van der Zee, who was ten years old at the time, remembers and relates what happened to his people.
Paperback, 330 pages, Illustrated, bibliography, and index
USD 28.95 / CAD 28.95