It was the coldest winter of the century. World War II was over, Germany was occupied, and the cities were bombed. There was a shortage of everything: housing, food, heating materials. When the cold set in, several hundred thousand people died from malnutrition, frostbite, and epidemics. Now, for the first time, those affected recount this horrific time. A moving chapter in German post-war history. "The cold was really terrible. We children were three in one bed, just to generate a little warmth. There was pure ice on the walls." Edith Eints, refugee child, then 9 years old.