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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 ...
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 famine of 1944–1945 during World War II [145] Netherlands: 20,000: 1944–1945: Vietnamese famine of 1944–1945: Vietnam: 600,000 ...
Toggle 1945 subsection. 7.1 January. 7.2 February. ... The Dutch famine of 1944–45 began late in the year. ... The Dutch government orders a general railway strike [3]
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]
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 ...
When the Dutch government-in-exile asked for a national railway strike as a resistance measure, the German occupiers stopped food transports to the western Netherlands, and this set the stage for the "Hunger winter", the Dutch famine of 1944. 374 Dutch resistance fighters are buried in the Field of Honour in the Dunes around Bloemendaal. In ...
In response to attacks by the Dutch Resistance, he ordered reprisals against Dutch civilians such as the Putten raid. He was also responsible for the Dutch famine of 1944–1945 that resulted in the deaths of thousands of civilians after ordering an embargo on all food transports to the western Netherlands.