The end of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands was exactly 80 years ago on May 5. But it came too late for around 20,000 ...

Ben Buitenhuis, a 83-year-old surivor of the 1944-1945 Hunger Winter, poses with a picture of himself as a young boy during the Hunger Winter in Delft, Netherlands, Tuesday, April 29, 2025.

Dutch WWII 'Hunger Winter' Survivor Had to Wait in Line for Meal Made From Flower Bulbs DELFT, Netherlands (AP) — Ben Buitenhuis doesn't get hungry. He never really has since the end of World ...

As German occupiers desperately tried to feed their homeland's faltering war machine with any resources plundered from the occupied Dutch territory ... to his home in Delft and waiting until ...