Winter in Wartime — Netherlands
A Dutch teenager in 1944 helps a wounded British airman evade the Gestapo — navigating divided loyalties in a community where his own father is collaborating with the German occupiers.
The Netherlands was occupied from May 1940 to May 1945. Resistance grew substantially after Market Garden's failure in September 1944 and the subsequent Hunger Winter of 1944-45, when 20,000 Dutch civilians starved to death. Amersfoort had one of the largest German concentration camps in the Netherlands, making it a particularly fraught setting for collaboration and resistance.