";s:4:"text";s:5100:" Their target was the shipyards and dock area, in the west of Rotterdam. For example, The Maritime Museum blocks the "Window to the River", and Piet Blom's Cube Houses create another barrier between the city and river, where in the 'Basisplan' there was to be a connection between them. The recently renovated Submarine Wharf was selected as its venue. Rotterdam, the largest industrial centre in the Netherlands and of major strategic importance to the Germans, was to be bombed. Half a mile away, the cement spattered wooden forms of a huge, new wholesale mart climb to knobby squares above the flat sands.
When the invasion of Holland took place I was recalled from leave and went on my first operation on 15 May 1940 against mainland Germany. This is mission 4 for Bomber Command of the. The Hague, 1970. [15][16] The attack was to be preceded by artillery bombardment, while Gen. Schmidt had requested the support of the Luftwaffe in the form of a Gruppe (about 25 aircraft) of Junkers Ju 87 dive-bombers, specifically for a precision raid. Mission 607: As part of a regional sweep by 49 P-38s and 165 P-47s, the rail and highway traffic in the Rotterdam area is.
[44] The Euromast tower built in 1960, is a related attempt at creating a visual link between the city and port, seemingly one of the last related to van Traa's 'Basisplan'[45] before later attempts like the 'Boompjes Boulevard' in 1991. In my opinion, Rotterdam is one of the rare good examples of a total change the image of the city. By that time the fire services had extinguished a number of fires, but they were still dotted around the whole city. De luchtverdediging mei 1940, by F.J. Molenaar.
Fifty-four He 111s dropped low to release 97 tonnes (213,848 lb) of bombs, mainly in the centre of the city. These included bombing strategic installations, leaflet dropping, and during the last week of the war, the dropping of emergency food supplies. [45] This was met with criticism from the newly formed 'Inner Circle of Rotterdam Club', who promoted integrating the city with the Maas River, and claimed the dike would create a marked separation from it. In the end of XX century, its carcass was reconstructed. The goal of the invasion was to break resistance and force the Dutch to surrender. No USAAF losses. [33] Schmidt sent a conciliatory message to the Dutch commander General Winkelman, who surrendered shortly afterwards at Rijsoord, a village southeast of Rotterdam. [20], Schmidt used the threat of destroying Rotterdam to attempt to force Colonel Scharroo to surrender the city. This is the new home of the Rotterdamsche Bank. The German bombing of Rotterdam, also known as the Rotterdam Blitz, was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II. There was the only one arch from XVII left but it was destroyed during the war.