Review by zappapappa-528-951161

I'm a Dutchman, I was born in 1966, my parents 40 years before me in 1926 and their parents 36 years before them in 1890. In our family we lost members during those years. So as you might imagine I was raised and educted with what happened during those days. Even though my family's origins lie in Rotterdam, I reckognize a lot of what my (grand)parents told me.

No1 thought the war would come to The Netherlands and all of a sudden it was there. And once it was, it got from bad to worse and worser.

But my parents were relatively young when it all started and when I asked my mother what it was like in those days she said: "Kind of exciting". I guess the burden of that hell fell to the older generation. But due to my upbringing the stories my family told me are ingrained in my memories.

This series managed to capture a lot of what I've been told and was educated in school (when they still thought WWII was important). What a hell it must have been. Always worrying about the next day, the food, wood to burn your stove (1944 was a really really cold winter). And in 1944 every1 thought "we" would get liberated, but it took the Allied until 1945 to set the whole of Holland free.