The hunger winter : occupied Holland, 1944-1945 / Henri A. van der Zee.

Collection type	Library
Author	Van der Zee, Henri A. (Henri Antony), 1934-;
Call Number	949.2071 H518n
Document type	Monograph
Year	1998.
Pagination	330 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Publisher	University of Nebraska Press,
Note	Reprint. Originally published: London : J. Norman & Hobhouse, 1982. Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-319) and index. 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 Berl in. 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.
Place made	Lincoln, Neb. :

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