Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Dutch famine of 1944, known as hongerwinter ("Hunger winter") in Dutch, was a famine that took place in the occupied northern part of the Netherlands during the winter of 1944-1945, near the end of World War II. A total of 18,000 people died during the famine.Near the end of World War II, food supplies became increasingly scarce in the Netherlands. After the landing of the Allied Forces on D-Day, conditions grew worse in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. The Allies were able to liberate the southern part of the country, but their liberation efforts came to a halt when Operation Market Garden, their attempt to gain control of the bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem, failed. The seizure of the approaches to the port of Antwerp (the Battle of the Scheldt) was delayed due to Montgomery''s preoccupation with Market Garden.