People always find opportunities to profit from the suffering of others.
This is true everywhere in the world!
Last September, after the German occupation authorities issued a ban cutting off all food supplies within the Netherlands and imposing a total blockade, the winter of 1944 became a winter of death for the Dutch, who had neither food nor fuel. Although the Allies airdropped tens of thousands of tons of supplies into the Netherlands using thousands of bombers, it was merely a drop in the bucket. Food in the Netherlands was now worth its weight in gold; on the black market, the price of wheat soared to as much as $200 per kilogram.
Famine, cold, despair, and death hung over the Netherlands throughout this winter.
If you ask: what is most valuable during a famine?
The answer: food!
