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Between the autumn of 1944 and the summer of 1945, in the final phase of the Second World War, North Vietnam was struck by a severe famine. Early Vietnamese accounts reported that ‘two million’ people died of starvation, and Ho Chi Minh repeated this figure in his pronouncement of independence for Vietnam on 2 September 1945.
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Furuta, M. (1998). A Survey of Village Conditions during the 1945 Famine in Vietnam. In: Kratoska, P.H. (eds) Food Supplies and the Japanese Occupation in South-East Asia. Studies in the Economies of East and South-East Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26937-2_10
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