Mr. Hans Brinckmann's talk was based on "The Monkey Dance", a chronicle of his own as a 12-year-old boy in the Winter of Starvation 1944～1945 in German occupied Netherlands after the D-day. Frequent air-raids by the Allied forces meant to attack German V2 missiles were also hurting Dutch people, not to mention Food & Fuel Blockade by German Authority.
Showing the photos of British Spitfire fighter bomber, German V2 missile on its launching pad in the fine residential area, Wassenaar, and a wooden-tyred bicycle, and also telling what tulip bulbs tasted like and how a fresh bull's head for soup astonished him, he attracted 45 participants, with 5 Dutch mothers among them.
His father was determined to keep his families and his 16 workers alive over Hunger Winter, dangerously outwitting German authority and bartering his stationery wholesale stock for food.　
The talk closed with his loving memory of Father and a heartwarming episode of friendship between an elderly German soldier and his father, which bridged the frontier divide.　It made excellent introduction to the war museum visits (Showa-kan and Shokei-kan).