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Dutch children eating soup during the famine of 1944–1945 Two Dutch women transporting food during the famine period. The Dutch famine of 1944–1945, also known as the Hunger Winter (from Dutch Hongerwinter), was a famine that took place in the German-occupied Netherlands, especially in the densely populated western provinces north of the great rivers, during the relatively harsh winter of ...
25 Aug: J.A. van Bijnen becomes the National Sabotage Commander of the Knokploegen [3] (Knokploegen were Dutch resistance fighting squads) 28 Aug: First new airdrop of weapons and sabotage materials for Dutch underground groups [3] 30 Aug: Hitler orders the improvement and extension of the Siegfried Line [3]
The winter of 1944–1945 was very harsh, which led to "hunger journeys" and many cases of starvation (about 30,000 casualties), exhaustion, cold and disease. The winter is known as the Hongerwinter (literally, "hunger winter") or the Dutch famine of 1944. In response to a general railway strike ordered by the Dutch government-in-exile in ...
Prince Bernhard appointed Commander of the Dutch Armed Forces. [1] Queen Wilhelmina, via Radio Oranje, informs the population in occupied territory that 'liberation is imminent' [1] Commencement of the organized departure of German citizens from the Netherlands [1] 3 to 4 Sep: Start of systematic railway sabotage by the Landelijke Knokploegen [1]
Famine in Spain caused primarily by the implementation of the autarkic economy: Spain: 200,000 [128] [129] 1940–1943: Famine in Cape Verde: Cape Verde: 20,000 [90] 1940–1945: Famine in Warsaw Ghetto, as well as other ghettos and concentration camps (note: this famine was the result of deliberate denial of food to ghetto residents on the ...
Chronology of the liberation of Dutch cities and towns during World War II; D. Dutch famine of 1944–1945; G. ... Timeline of the Netherlands during World War II; W.
An Avro Lancaster with a food drop over Ypenburg during Operation Manna. Operation Manna and Operation Chowhound were humanitarian food drops to relieve the Dutch famine of 1944–45 in the German-occupied Netherlands undertaken by Allied bomber crews during the last 10 days of the official war in Europe.
Dutch was used by only a limited educated elite, and in 1942, around two percent of the total population in the Dutch East Indies spoke Dutch, including over 1 million indigenous Indonesians. [128] A number of Dutch loan words are used in present-day Indonesian, particularly technical terms (see List of Dutch loan words in Indonesian ).