The Hunger Winter - a podcast by 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.

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