How a Railway Strike Led to the Hunger Winter
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On September 17, 1944, approximately 30,000 employees of Nederlandse Spoorwegen (Dutch Railways) stopped working. They went into hiding in secret. This strike caused many problems.
As a result of this plan, trains could barely run anymore. As a result, fewer goods and less food reached various parts of the Netherlands. This marked the beginning of a difficult period that later became known as the Hunger Winter.