Bread rations—200 g/day—and food stamps, siege of Leningrad, Oct 1941.
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@FlorianBeckert7 Yeah, the rations shrunk ~3X in the first couple of months. Then there are those unpleasant stories about eating cats.
@ninabyzantina @florianbeckert7 Had an older friend who was a boy at that time. Stories of eating grass & shoe leather…
@FlorianBeckert7 @naylor_stevan The story of the Leningrad area during WWII is gruesome and interesting—the stolen art, e.g. Samson statue.
@NinaByzantina @FlorianBeckert7 Europe Central by William T. Vollman has much to say about the siege esp Dmitri Shostakovich
@NinaByzantina @FlorianBeckert7 In despair, people also ate tulip bulbs, many died from that during the hunger winter in the Netherlands.
@NinaByzantina @FlorianBeckert7 In the Netherlands during WWII, cats were called "roof rabbits" to avoid telling the children they ate cats.
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