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- aspect ratio
- 4:3
- colour
- Black & White
- category
- General
- World War II
- keywords
- chaos
- fears
- destruction
- street scenes
- ravages
- aerial attacks
- bombs
- wars
- war images
- schools
- fires
- military officers
- fights
- people
- location
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Rotterdam
Rotterdam is bombed
Part of a German propaganda film that gives justification for the German attack on the Netherlands in May 1940 and which followed the German troops during their conquest of the Netherlands.
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Duration: 00:01:40
Program title: ATTACK ON ROTTERDAM
Episode title: ATTACK ON ROTTERDAM (ACT 2)
Extended info for: "Rotterdam is bombed"
This section coveres the occupation of villages. German soldiers move up through the fields. Then German tanks cross the bridges in Rotterdam. Rotterdam is heavily bombed. We see the devastation from the air in the center. As the German forces are too strong for the Dutch, the Dutch commander General Winkelman decides to capitulate.
