Dutch Hunger Winter
1944–1945 · Event
A German embargo and a frozen railway strike starve the occupied west; some 20,000 die and many are reduced to eating tulip bulbs, and the famine's children — Audrey Hepburn among them — carry it lifelong.
On these timelines: The Low Countries, Master, World War II
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- Dutch Golden Age (1588)
- Dutch Republic (1588)
- William the Silent (1533)
- Jan van Eyck (1390)
- Belgian Revolution (1830)
- Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652)
- Burgundian Netherlands (1384)
- German invasion of the Netherlands (1940)
Around 1944
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- Berlin Airlift (1948)
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- Manhattan Project (1942)
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