[dfwgator]

The Germans blockaded food supplies to Holland leaving to the Dutch to starve in what they called “The Hunger Winter’’.

That's why Audrey Hepburn was so small. She was a victim of the Hunger Winter.

[jmacusa]

Yup. Poor kid almost didn’t make it.

Montgomery was an asshole, plain and simple.

He called Market-Garden ‘’an unqualified success’’.

At the time, the 33 year old Dutch Regent in exile Prince Rupert said “My country can never again afford the luxury of a Montgomery success’’.