Saturday, 15 May 2010

Today in Dutch WWII History: The Bombardment of Rotterdam.

70 Years ago on 14 May 1940 1.20 PM (Dutch Time) Bombers of the German Luftwaffen almost completely destroyed the town center of Rotterdam. The fire that started after the bombardment kept raging on for weeks.


Over a 800 people were killed, mostly civilians, 25.000 houses were destroyed and almost 80.000 people became homeless because of the bombardment.

For a more detailed description what happened that day i would like to point out to the following page. It is from the website that i linked to in my previous "Today in Dutch WWII History" post.
Rotterdam


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2 comments:

  1. jmezz38215 May 2010 at 14:15

    I grew up in Rotterdam NY, I believe they are "sister" towns .....

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  2. Hein16 May 2010 at 10:39

    I didn't know that there was a Rotterdam in the US.
    I do know that you find a lot of places that still refer to the time that New York was a Dutch.
    Like:
    Brooklyn = Breukelen
    Harlem = Haarlem
    Wall street = Waalstraat

    etc

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