US EditionDutch WWII 'Hunger Winter' survivor had to wait in line for meal made from flower bulbs
- Ben Buitenhuis, now 83 and retired, recalls surviving the severe 1944-45 Hunger Winter in Delft, Netherlands during WWII.
- The famine resulted from a 1944 rail strike called by the Dutch government in exile that blocked food to western cities, worsening German resource plundering.
- During the winter, Buitenhuis scavenged powdered milk by the factory next to his home and queued for scarce rations, sometimes made from flower bulbs eaten as emergency food.
- He explained how mixing water with spilled powdered milk created a makeshift milk and encouraged focusing on the present rather than dwelling on the past, highlighting the importance of preserving the understanding of freedom.
- Though around 20,000 died from starvation or cold, survivors like Buitenhuis live with hunger's legacy while valuing ongoing war commemorations as survivors dwindle.
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Historians are mild about the 'wrong' Telegraaf during the war: an unequal battle between the editors and the German occupiers
Eighty years ago, Germany surrendered, the Netherlands was liberated and De Telegraaf was banned from publication. The newspaper was wrong during the war, is still regularly heard. But how wrong was wrong? 'It was an unequal battle'.
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Dutch WWII 'Hunger Winter' survivor had to wait in line for meal made from flower bulbs
The end of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands was exactly 80 years ago on May 5. But it came too late for around 20,000 people who died of as a result of starvation or freezing temperatures in what the Dutch call, with a grim simplicity, The Hunger Winter of 1944-45.
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