Starvation winter

Several very cold winters in recent history that were associated with a (often war-related) food shortage are referred to as starvation winters , in particular:

• the winters of 1812/1813 and 1813/1814 during the time of the Napoleonic occupation, the Russian campaign and the wars of liberation
• the winter of 1847/1848 in Germany and Austria, see also German Revolution 1848/1849 and Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire
• the winter of 1870/1871 in Germany and France during the Franco-German War
• the winter of 1916/1917 in the German Reich, also known as the turnip winter , and occasionally the two subsequent winters
• the winters of 1918/1919 and 1919/1920 in Austria, see also the viability debate in Austria after 1918
• the winter of 1921/1922 in the Russian Civil War
• the "inflation winter" of 1923/1924 in Germany
• the "war winters" of 1939/1940, 1940/1941 and 1941/1942 in the occupied territories of Europe, the latter also in Germany and above all in the Soviet Union
• the winter of 1944/1945 the starvation winter in the Netherlands at the time of the German occupation;
• the winter of 1946/1947 in post-war Germany ; see hunger winter 1946/47
• the winter of 1947/1948 in post-war Germany

See also:

Wiktionary: Hungerwinter  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• hunger
• famine
• Fat gap

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.