The Hunger Winter
How millions of Dutch faced starvation at the end of World War Two
Witness History: World War Two history · BBC World Service
January 22, 20138m 55s
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Show Notes
At the end of World War Two, millions of people in the west of Nazi-occupied Netherlands faced starvation.
The lucky ones survived on watery bread, potato peel or tulip bulbs.
Witness speaks to one Dutchman who lived through what became known as the Hunger Winter.
PHOTO: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.