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What was the turnip winter?
during world war one, the civilians had very little to eat for 3 years. everything went to the war front, where soldiers were assumed to need all the protein they could get. … The "Turnip Winter" was the nadir of this miserable time. The term refers to the winter of 1916-1917, when an early frost killed off much of the potato crop. As a result, for much of the winter there weren't enough potatoes and they had to be supplemented with last-minute plantings of turnips. These got the population through the winter, for the most part -- nobody starved per se, although there were thousands of deaths from malnutrition-induced diseases -- but everyone in Germany was perpetually and chronically hungry for months on end. (MORE)
