What was Dutch life under German rule, during WWII?
-Were Dutch people expected to speak German? We know that Dutch and German are very similar languages so we feel that it wouldn’t be too difficult for the Dutch and the Germans to communicate. We don’t know for a fact that everyone would have been expected to speak German, but if they were, it wouldn’t have been difficult for them to learn. -How did the Germans treat Dutch people? When the S.S. soldiers invaded the small towns of Holland, they went to every house, took any man that was able to fight, put them on trucks, and sent them to Germany. From October 1944 to May 1945, parts of the Netherlands were suffering a severe famine, which became known as the Dutch Hunger Winter. The Dutch had been rationing the food since the beginning of the war and by the end, there was none left for the Dutch. About 22 000 people died because the Germans were keeping all the food to themselves. At the end of the war, Canadian bomber pilots used their planes in Operation Manna to bring food to the sta
