The Hunger Winter: Occupied Holland, 1944-1945Henri A. Van Der Zee U of Nebraska Press, 1 gen 1998 - 330 pagine 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 Europeøwere 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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List of Illustrations | 11 |
The Netherlands 19445 | 11 |
The Flooding of the Netherlands | 13 |
Acknowledgements | 14 |
Preface | 15 |
Mad Tuesday | 17 |
Shattered Hopes | 27 |
Public Relations | 34 |
Trouble in London | 159 |
Help at Last | 170 |
Bullets and Bombs | 181 |
Holland SOS | 189 |
Back for Ten Days | 197 |
Race through the East | 206 |
A Russian Drama | 213 |
Stop at the Line | 221 |
New Terrors | 43 |
The Hunt for Slaves | 53 |
The Battle of the Scheldt | 60 |
Out to the Farms | 68 |
Dark December | 77 |
Mother of Her Country | 88 |
The Wrong Side | 97 |
The Princes Men | 107 |
Actions Horribles | 119 |
The Great Escape | 130 |
The Lowest Point | 146 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Allies Amersfoort Amsterdam Anton Mussert Apeldoorn April Army Arnhem arrived asked attack Bedell Smith began Blaskowitz bread Breda British Canadian capitulation Chief of Staff Churchill commander Commissioner Confidential Councillors Dr Mees Dutch Government Dutchman Eisenhower felt flag forced gave Georgians Gerbrandy German German soldiers Grebbe Line guilders Hague Hanns Albin Rauter Hilversum Hirschfeld Hitler Hunger Winter Ijsselmeer Jews Kessel kilograms Koot leader Liberation live London looked Louwes March military Mussert nation Nazi Netherlands never night November o'clock Occupied Holland October officer once organised polder police potatoes Prime Minister Prince Bernhard prisoners Queen Wilhelmina Radio Oranje Rauter received Red Cross reported Resistance returned Rotterdam Schwebel sent September 1944 Seyss Seyss-Inquart SHAEF stop streets talks telegram told took town transport troops Underground Utrecht Vlugt waiting warned Warrack weeks Wehrmacht western Holland women Zeeland