Video: 'The World At War: Occupation Holland 5/5' (Sept. 17, 1944, at 5:26)

(Sunday, September 17, 1944; during World War II) — The Dutch Government in London ordered a railway strike in support of Operation Market Garden, a plan to secure seven bridges and transport lines to the rail bridge across the Rhine at Arnhem.

Unfortunately, Arnhem proved to be the bridge too far.

The railroad workers, however, held firm and the strike continued until the Allies crossed the Rhine and liberated the rest of the Netherlands. By this time the people in the cities were starving.