EPISODE · Jan 22, 2013 · 8 MIN

The Hunger Winter

from Witness History: World War Two history · host BBC World Service

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.

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