The rest of Holland still occupied by the Germans(Amsterdam,Rotterdam,etc) suffered “the hunger winter” of 1945. Reich Commisioner for the Netherlands,Arthur Seyss-Inquart, adopted a scorched earth policy. He had spent the war deporting Dutch Jews to the death camps,setting up the three concentration camps on Dutch soil, the “hostage executions” in reprisals against the Dutch resistance and mass deportations of the populace to work as slave labour in Germany.
Only in the last weeks,with the Allies closing in,did he relent and try to curry favour by allowing unhindered humanitarian Allied air drops of food and medicines for the starving Dutch people. It did him no good. Seyss-Inquart was arrested after he fled to Hamburg,was tried and sentenced to death at Nuremberg and executed as a war criminal!