Rotterdam Blitz (1940), the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) during the Second World War
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Allied bombing of Rotterdam (1940–1945), the Allied air forces operations over Rotterdam and the surrounding region during the German occupation of the Netherlands during the Second World War
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On his way to Rotterdam, Von Sponeck's isolated group twice avoided Dutch traps but eventually had to dig in for all-around defense with as many as 1,100 men, only avoiding humiliating capture by the strategic bombing of Rotterdam on 14 May 1940, according to some sources, especially ordered by Reichmarschall Hermann Göring to save his protégé Von Sponeck and force a solution in Holland.