What the records say
- When
- Sep 1944 – Apr 1945
- Kind
- Famine
- Coordinates
- 52.32° N, 5.55° E
- Description
- widespread famine in the Nazi-Occupied Netherlands caused by the occupation
- Deaths
- 22000
- Injured
- 200000
- Cause
- Dutch Railway strike 1944, Operation Market Garden
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
4 sources record it
- Wikidata: famines, epidemics and firesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Dutch famine ("Hongerwinter") begins, in the occupied northern part of the Netherlands”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Am Dolle Dinsdag gibt es in den Niederlanden Gerüchte über eine Befreiung durch die Alliierten”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “май 1945 — Голодная зима в Нидерландах”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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