War Diaries (February 8) (nonfiction)

War Diary entries for February 8.

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Petronella Catharina Hauser: February 8, 1945

I couldn’t sleep last night because I was so hungry! I got out of bed and took one of my three slices of bread for the next day. There was also a pan with boiled brown peas for the next day. I took some of those, too. I felt like a thief in my own home … ! Feel sick today.

—Petronella Catharina Hauser, a 27-year old teacher from Rotterdam, described in her diary how famine affected daily life. During the last winter of the war, the Hunger Winter, as it was known, the Germans blockaded much of the Netherlands, cutting off food and fuel supplies in response to a Dutch rail strike intended to help the Allies.

• Dutch War Diaries @ NY Times

George Beck: February 8, 1945

Tonight as I sit here I can’t help but wonder when I shall get home. Russian planes once again raided the aerodrome outside the camp. Firing of guns continues and it grows louder with the passing hours, we are practically cut off now, Germans wanted to know if we wanted to evacuate with them while there’s time, but we’re stopping and taking a chance. No doubt there will be casualties but it will be just as bad outside.

—George Beck,1st Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, prisoner of war (diary)

• http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

Nonfiction cross-reference

• George Beck (nonfiction)
• Petronella Hauser (nonfiction)
• War (nonfiction)
• War Diaries (nonfiction)

External links

• Dutch War Diaries @ NY Times
• http://www.pegasusarchive.org/pow/george_beck1.htm