Fuck off idiot
What's this got to fucking do with who started the bombing you total cunt. Try and stay ON topic instead of squawking about what is today a muslim enriched town with a muslim mayor in swamp Germany.
also (((wikipedia))) you fucking kike
Rotterdam was bombed on May 14. Nearly 900 people were killed, although initial press reports were higher saying up to 35,000 died. Propaganda… It was widely believed at the time to be a NAZI 'terror bombing' the tactic was known as "Schrecklichkeit" (frightfulness), the use of terror to break a country's will to resist, which also worked in Poland [ Germans offered Poles the chance to surrender Warsaw a few times ( standard practice ) before bombing. Proof they wanted to avoid as many civilian deaths as possible. It was the same with other Polish and non-Polish cities ]
It was planned as a tactical operation or used by German commanders to force the Dutch marines into surrendering quickly. It worked in the Netherlands almost the same way as it did in Poland. The bombing of Rotterdam and threats of similar bombings of other Dutch cities convinced the Dutch that resistance was futile. The Dutch Army surrendered on May 15, one day later
It was a tactical target being then as it is today the busiest port in the Netherlands and arguably Europe and also strategically important as it is connected to the Rhine
The German army had given the Dutch marines a last ultimatum of surrendering all the bridges, or the city would be bombed. The marines were too proud to give up their bridge position. The marines were highly looked at by the Dutch people. It was one of the best trained elite armed forces at the time in Holland. They were specially-picked men who had to join and sign for a six-year duty.Their tradition was never to give up, and would fight until the last man. This led to the inevitable..
The attacks by the Royal Air Force (RAF) on German cities began with the attack on Wilhelmshaven on 5 September 1939.
On 11 May the British Cabinet decided to unleash the Bomber Command on the air war against the German hinterland. The following night British planes aimlessly dropped bombs for the first time on residential areas of Mönchengladbach-Rheydt. And from then on made such attacks on cities in the Ruhr area night after night. Up to 13 May 1940, i.e. two days later,the German side registered a total of 51 British air attacks on non-military targets plus 14 attacks on military targets such as bridges, railway tracks, defense and industrial plants. The first carpet bombing of a German city was in the night from 15 to 16 May 1940 in Duisburg. After that the RAF committed repeated air attacks on German cities. The night of 24th August 1940 - bombs meant to be dropped on the Thames haven oil storage depot and on the Short's factory at Rochester, by mistake or simply because they were randomly unloaded in order to escape fighters, fell on the City of London and nine other districts inside the Greater London limit. Incendiaries lit fires in Bethnal Green, and St Giles' Church in Cripplegate was damaged. Oxford Street department stores were damaged. Nine people were killed and 58 injured.
British historians are so ridiculously blind as soon as WW2 is concerned that it's better to laugh at them…
"In no country has the historical blackout been more intense and effective than in Great Britain. Here it has been ingeniously christened The Iron Curtain of Discreet Silence. Virtually nothing has been written to reveal the truth about British responsibility for the Second World War and its disastrous results."
- Harry Elmer Barnes. American Historian
Joseph P. Kennedy, U.S. Ambassador to Britain during the years immediately preceding WW2 was the father of the famous American Kennedy dynasty. James Forrestal the first US Secretary of Defense (1947-1949) quotes him as saying "Chamberlain (the British Prime Minister) stated that America and the world Jews had forced England into the war." (The Forrestal Diaries ed. Millis, Cassell 1952, p129)
Hugh Wilson, the American Ambassador in Berlin until 1938, the year before the war broke out, found anti-Semitism in Germany understandable. This was because before the advent of the Nazis, "the stage, the press, medicine and law [were] crowded with Jews..among the few with money to splurge, a high proportion [were] Jews..the leaders of the Bolshevist movement in Russia, a movement desperately feared in Germany, were Jews. One could feel the spreading resentment and hatred." (Hugh Wilson: Diplomat between the Wars, Longmans 1941, quoted in Leonard Mosley, Lindbergh, Hodder 1976).
Sir Nevile Henderson, British Ambassador in Berlin, 'said further that the hostile attitude in Great Britain was the work of Jews and enemies of the Nazis, which was what Hitler thought himself.” (Taylor, AJP: The Origins of the Second World War Penguin 1965, 1987 etc p 324).