In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week - tulips in the spring, roses in the summer - stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the germans at...In the part of the marketplace where flowers had been sold twice a week - tulips in the spring, roses in the summer - stood German tanks and German soldiers. Annie de leeuw was eight years old in 1940 when the germans attacked holland and marched into the town of winterswijk where she lived.