Why did Europe after the Second World War broke out such a human tragedy

The term "De Hongerwinter" is still a bad historical term in the Netherlands that has been forgotten by people. The winter of 1944 to the spring of 1945, the German occupation forces in the Netherlands cut off the Netherlands and the outside world all the grain rail traffic to punish the Dutch railway workers and allied tacit cooperation. At that time the whole of the country in northern Holland were unable to obtain enough food supply, from the upper to the bottom of the civilians, were forced to suffer in the cold and hunger struggling to survive this winter. Always in a free, well-known Dutchman, can only take a spoon to take the streets flip trash, hoping to find some food from the inside. But the fact is always so skinny, search is often disappointing, people are so hungry day hungry hard to survive. Bitter winter, people also had to put the furniture books are thrown into the fireplace to get warm. The empty fireplace hangs a similarly empty pot. The pot stood digging three feet to find the flowers bulb, plant seeds, and even bark, belt. As long as they can cook, they eat. That tragic look you just need to look at Feng Xiaogang's movie "1942" will be able to experience the two.

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According to the historian later complex, when the Dutch can only get 400 to 800 kcal of energy every day. This energy is almost equivalent to a large bottle of Coke. You can imagine yourself to drink a full six months of Coke, one day a bottle, in the end will become a ghost like? Yes, the famine eventually led to more than 20,000 people in the north of the Netherlands who were killed by hunger and cold, and survivors were not like people, ghosts and ghosts.

If the adults can be tolerated by the point of hunger, let the children also to endure this difficult times it is a bit harsh. The garrison of the Nazi Germany did not open up the children, and everyone did not allocate food equally. Worse than the children are those pregnant women. Women who are pregnant with the body can not get enough nutrition, every day can only eat bread crumbs and rotten potatoes to eat. Which makes them and the children of the body are seriously malnourished, the life of these war children have caused adverse effects.