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 The Dutch air force had 155 aircraft: 28 Fokker G.1 twin-engine destroyers; 31 Fokker D.XXI and seven Fokker D.XVII fighters; ten twin-engined Fokker T.V, fifteen Fokker C.X and 35 Fokker C.V light bombers, twelve Douglas DB-8 dive bombers (used as fighters) and seventeen Koolhoven FK-51 reconnaissance aircraft.
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 The air force school used three Fokker D.XXI, six Fokker D.XVII, a single Fokker G.I, a single Fokker T-V and seven Fokker C.V, along with several training airplanes.
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 Another forty aircraft were the marine air service along with about an equal number of reserve and training craft.
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 Until 1938, those who were joined only served for 24 weeks, just enough to receive basic infantry training.
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 In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic had developed a defensive system called The Dutch Water Line.
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 The area west of the New Holland Water Line was called Fortress Holland (Dutch: Vesting Holland; German: Festung Holland).
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 Some people thought the defences would protect the country for three months without any Allied help.
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 Before the war the intention was to move to this position, and hope that Germany would only travel through the southern provinces on its way to Belgium and leave Holland undamaged.
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 Proposals by German diplomats that the Dutch government would accept a German advance into the country were rejected.
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 This second defensive position was dug on orders from the commander of the Field Army, Lieutenant-General Jan Joseph Godfried baron van Voorst tot Voorst.
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 Fourth and Second Army Corps were put at the Grebbe Line; Third Army Corps were put at the Peel-Raam Position with the Light Division behind it to cover its southern side.
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 First Army Corps was a reserve in the Fortress Holland, the southern edge of which was protected by another ten battalions and the eastern side by six battalions.
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 He proposed a battle at the crossing sites near Arnhem and Gennep to force the German divisions to use a lot of their energy before they had reached the MDL.
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 The Government wanted the army to resist at the Grebbe Line and Peel Raam Position, and then fall back to the Fortress Holland.
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 He was replaced by General Henry G. Winkelman who decided that in the north the Grebbe Line would be where the battle was to be fought, partly because it would be easier to counterattack.
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 In secret, the Dutch military talked with both Belgium and France to organize a common defence to a German invasion.
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 He did not approve of a plan by Van Voorst tot Voorst to occupy the "Orange Position to form a continuous line with the Belgian lines.
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 When Winkelman took over command, he proposed on 21 February that Belgium would set up a connecting line with the Peel Raam Position along the Belgian part of the Zuid-Willemsvaart.
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 Therefore, the Belgians decided to withdraw, in an invasion, all their troops to their main defence line, the Albert Canal.
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 Now the French Commander in Chief General Maurice Gamelin was more than interested in including the Dutch in his continuous line.
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 But he would not stretch his supply lines that far unless the Belgians and Dutch would take the allied side.
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 This Waal-Linge Position was planned to have pillboxes; the budget for pillboxes was increased with a hundred million guilders.
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 In addition to the Dutch Army and the German 18th Army, a third force would operate on Dutch soil: the French 7th Army.
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 A naval division and an infantry division were set to go to Zealand to block the Western Scheldt against a German crossing.
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 French Commander in Chief General Maurice Gamelin feared the Dutch would surrender or accept German protection.
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 The force consisted of the 16th Army Corps, the 9th Motorised and the 4th Infantry Division; and the 1st Army Corps, consisting of the 25th Motorised Infantry Division and the 21st Infantry Division.
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 This army was later reinforced by the 1st Mechanised Light Division, an armoured division of the French Cavalry.
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 Although the French troops would have more motorised units than the Germans, they could not hope to reach their places in the battle before the enemy did.
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 They needed the Dutch troops in the Peel-Raam Position to delay the Germans for a few extra days to allow French forces to move in and dig trenches.
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 These consisted of the reconnaissance units of the armoured and motorised divisions, with armoured cars.
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 In the Holland-Weisung (Holland Directive) of 15 November it was decided to conquer the entire south, but in the north to advance no further than the Grebbe Line, and to occupy the Frisian Isles.
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 Hermann Göring wanted a full capture of Holland as he needed the Dutch airfields to use against Britain.
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 He was afraid the Allies might reinforce Fortress Holland and use the airfields to bomb German cities and troops.
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 The attack at central Belgium was only a trick; and the attack at Fortress Holland only a trick as well.
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 Although both the 6th and 18th Army were in place at the Dutch border, the first, larger force would move south of Venlo to Belgium.
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 It contained only four regular infantry divisions (the 207th, 227th, 254th and 256th Infantry Divisions), assisted by three reserve divisions (208th, 225th, and 526th Infantry Divisions).
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 To add more men, the only German cavalry division, the 1st Kavalleriedivision was told to capture the weakly defended provinces east of the river IJssel.
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 As both efforts were unlikely to do well, the regular divisions were reinforced by the SS-Verfügungsdivision (including SS-Standarten Der Führer, Deutschland and Germania) and Leibstandarte Adolf Hitler.
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 Flieger-Division, was paratroopers; the second, the 22nd Luftlande-Infanteriedivision, of airborne infantry.
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 The airborne troops would capture the airfields around The Hague, and then capture that government, together with the Dutch High Command and Queen Wilhelmina.
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 If the first attack did not succeed, the bridges at Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Moerdijk would be captured to allow a mechanised force to move in.
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 The plan was for them to go through a gap in the Dutch lines created by the 254th and 256th Infantry Divisions.
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 At the same time, an attack would be made against the Grebbe Line in the east by the 207th and 227th Infantry Divisions, united to form X. Armeekorps, to fight the Dutch Army.
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 If the Dutch did not surrender on the first day, the Eighteenth Army would attack Fortress Holland on the third day from the south.
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 In March 1939 he began to pass information to his friend, a Dutch military officer in Berlin Major Gijsbertus J. Sas.
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 Though he said a German armoured division would try to attack the Netherlands and that there was a plan to capture the Queen, the Dutch defence plan was not changed.
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 When in the evening of 9 May Oster phoned his friend saying the attack would be soon, the Dutch troops were put on alert.
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 Oster was a leader of the German resistance from 1938 to 1943, and was one of those hanged after the 20 July 1944 bomb plot to kill Hitler.
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 Led by Oberst (Colonel) Martin Fiebig, KG 4 attacked the naval airfield at De Kooy, destroying 35 aircraft.
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 KG 4 also attacked Amsterdam-Schiphol, where the Dutch lost a third of their medium bombers, and The Hague airfields where KG 4 destroyed half of the 21 defending fighters.
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 KG 4 lost 11 Heinkel He 111 bombers on 10 May and three Junkers Ju 88s; KG 30 and 54 another nine bombers.
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 Jagdgeschwader 26 (JG 26) and Zerstörergeschwader 26 (ZG 26) shot down 25 Dutch aircraft for a loss of nine fighters, with Albert Kesselring's Luftflotte 2 destroying 41.
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 The paratroopers did not capture the main airfield at Ypenburg in time for the airborne infantry to land in their Junkers.
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 When the airstrip was blocked by wrecks the remaining planes landed in meadows or on the beach, spreading out the troops.
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 However, the landing strip was still being built and the water level had not yet been lowered: planes landing there sank in the soft soil.
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 The destroyer HNLMS Van Galen sailed up the Nieuwe Waterweg to bomb the airfield, but the ship got bombed.
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 An armoured train crossed it followed by a troop train, which unloaded an infantry battalion behind the defence line.
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 Generally German soldiers behaved in a civilised manner towards the Dutch population, buying food at the shops.
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 After the failed assaults on the bridges, the German divisions began crossing over the rivers IJssel and Maas.
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 At most places, bombing destroyed the pillboxes and the infantry divisions crossed the river by building pontoon bridges.
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 At Arnhem, Leibstandarte Der Fuehrer led the attack and advanced to the Grebbe Line, followed by 207.
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 Meanwhile, on the evening of the 10th, around 22:00, French troops using Panhard 178 armoured cars started to arrive at the Dutch border.
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 Attempts to get the French to move forward with the Dutch troops towards Noord-Brabant did not work well.
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 When a first attack had been stopped, an attack at the Main Defense Line was postponed because most artillery had not arrived.
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 In the south, the six border battalions in the province of Limburg delayed the advance of the German Sixth Army.
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 He thought that the German possession of the Moerdijk bridges would stop the movement of new Allied troops.
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 The bridge over the river Noord was defended by the German paratroopers, and it was impossible to cross it.
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 After killing German troops on the Island of Dordrecht the division was to advance into IJsselmonde over the Dordrecht bridge to reach Rotterdam.
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 Earlier during the day, two attempts were made by Dutch battalions to attack the western side of the German line.
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 Then a French force and another Dutch border battalion attacked the southern Moerdijk bridge, but the armoured cars were bombed by German Stukas and had to retreat.
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 In Rotterdam, the Dutch failed to kill the German airborne troops from their bridge on the northern bank of the Maas.
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 The French commanders of the 7th Army had expected that Dutch fighting would give them four days to build up a defensive line near Breda.
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 However, the best three divisions had been moved to the north and the remaining forces were retreating.
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 The withdrawal of the Peel Division from the Peel-Raam Position to the Zuid-Willemsvaart, a canal to the west, meant leaving behind their trenches and artillery for a totally unprepared line.
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 The eastern bank of the canal was higher than the western bank, providing excellent cover for the attackers.
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 One part of the canal, near Heeswijk, was left undefended; as this area contained a bridge which was not destroyed, the Germans were able to cross the canal around 13:00.
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 By the end of the 11th, the Germans had crossed the Zuid-Willemsvaart at most places and the Peel Division had fallen apart.
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 The French refused to advance further to the northeast than Tilburg, apart from some armoured cars that went as far as Berlicum.
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 Winkelman asked the British government to sent an Army Corps to add to allied positions in the area and bomb Waalhaven airfield.
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 Motorised elements of SS Standarte "Der Fuehrer" had reached the southernmost part of the Grebbe Line, in front of the Grebbeberg, on the evening of the 10th.
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 As the German bombing had cut the telephone lines, no artillery could be requested by the Dutch defenders.
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 The commander of 2nd Army Corps, Major-General Jacob Harberts, did not realise that motorised SS troops had been involved in the attack.
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 The armoured division was told to join with the airborne troops as soon as the Peel-Raam Position had been captured by the infantry forces.
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 Because the German 6th Army was threatening its right side and there was no time to prepare a defence line, Gamelin ordered the 7th Army to withdraw its left side.
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 Shortly after noon the German armoured cars got thirty kilometres more to the west, cutting off the Fortress Holland from the Allied main force.
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 The Light Division tried to recapture the Island of Dordrecht by advancing with four battalions with little artillery support.
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 After artillery bombing in the morning, at around noon a battalion of Der Fuehrer attacked the main line, occupied by a Dutch company.
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 Due to a lack of numbers, training, and heavy weapons, the attacks failed against the well-trained SS troops.
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 Spotting a weak point, one of the SS battalion commanders, Obersturmbannführer Hilmar Wäckerle, attacked.
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 The earlier German advance later caused the main line to be abandoned for over two miles to the north because the troops there feared an attack from behind.
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 The Dutch knew that the forces on the Grebbe Line would not be strong enough to stop all attacks by themselves.
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 In the North, the Wons position had a long perimeter of about nine kilometres, which gave space for retreating troops.
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 On 12 May units with a combined strength of only two battalions were still present, so the line was weakly held.
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 General Winkelman ordered the artillery bin the Hoekse Waard to try to destroy the Moerdijk bridges and sent a team to Rotterdam to blow up the Willemsbrug.
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 The new prime minister said he did not have any reserves; however, three British torpedo boats were sent to Lake IJssel.
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 In the early morning of 13 May General Winkelman told the Dutch government that there were serious problems.
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 On land the Dutch had been cut off from the Allied front and no major Allied landings were planned by sea.
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 German tanks might quickly pass through Rotterdam; Winkelman had already ordered all antitank-guns to be placed around The Hague, to protect the government.
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 However, a collapse of the Dutch defences might still be prevented if attacks could seal off the southern front near Dordrecht and restore the eastern line at the Grebbeberg.
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 Therefore, the cabinet decided to continue the fight, giving the general the power to surrender the Army when he thought he had to.
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 Queen Wilhelmina was brought to safety; she departed around noon from Hoek van Holland, where a British Irish Guards battalion was present, on HMS Hereward, a British destroyer, and went to England.
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 The previous evening, the Queen's only child and Princess Juliana, together with her husband and their children, had departed from IJmuiden on HMS Codrington  for Harwich.
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 As the Queen was part of the government, when she left, the cabinet had to whether to follow her or remain.
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 After many discussions it was decided to leave also: the ministers sailed at 19:20 from Hoek van Holland on HMS Windsor to form a government in exile in London.
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 Three Dutch merchant ships, escorted by British warships, transferred government gold and diamonds to the United Kingdom.
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 Panzerdivision remained to pursue the French, the other four began to cross the Moerdijk bridge at 05:20.
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 A tank company also tried to capture the Dordrecht, but it was ordered to retreat after heavy street fighting.
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 Kavalleriedivision, Major General Kurt Feldt, had to go over the Enclosure Dike because of a lack of ships.
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 It had been Feldt's intention to destroy the position by mortars, but the train transporting it had been blocked on 10 May by a blown railway bridge at Winschoten.
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 In the late afternoon five sections tried to attack under cover of an artillery bombing, but soon fled after being fired upon.
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 During the evening and night of 12–13 May the Dutch had a dozen However, not all of these units could be put together to attack the main line.
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 At 20:30 Van Voorst tot Voorst ordered the three Army Corps to abandon the Grebbe Line and the Waal-Linge Position and to retreat.
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 Despite his loss of hope and the power  he had been given to surrender the Army, General Winkelman avoided surrendering until he had to.
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 Winkelman on 12 May ordered the defence of an "Amsterdam Position" along the North Sea Canal, but only weak forces were available.
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 On IJsselmonde the German forces prepared to cross the Maas in Rotterdam, which was defended by about eight Dutch battalions.
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 The main attack would take place in the centre of the city, with the German 9th Panzer Division advancing over the Willemsbrug.
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 However, Luftwaffe commander Hermann Göring, worried about his surrounded airborne troops, wanted a total bombing of Rotterdam.
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 At 09:00 a German messenger crossed the Willemsbrug to bring a message Schmidt to Colonel Pieter Scharroo, the Dutch commander of Rotterdam, demanding a surrender of the city.
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 Schmidt ordered red flares to be fired to signal that the bombing was to be stopped, but only the squadron from the southwest stopped its attack, after their first three planes had dropped their bombs.
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 Göring had ordered a second bombing of the city to be carried out unless the whole of Rotterdam was occupied.
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 When Schmidt heard the order, he sent a message at 17:15 claiming the city was taken, but this was not true.
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 He got a message from Colonel Cuno Eduard Willem baron van Voorst tot Voorst, the commander of the city of Utrecht, that the Germans demanded its surrender.
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 Messages were dropped by planes saying that only surrender would stop the city from being destroyed.
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 Winkelman thought the Germans would bomb any city offering any resistance, Since he was told to avoid suffering and since the Dutch military was weak, he decided to surrender.
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 All army units were informed at 16:50 by of his decision and ordered to destroy their weapons and surrender to the nearest German units.
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 On the morning of 14 May the commander of the Royal Dutch Navy, Vice-Admiral Johannes Furstner, left the country to continue the fight.
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 Eight ships had already departed, some smaller vessels were sunk, and nine others sailed for England in the evening of 14 May.
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 The commander of the main Dutch naval port of Den Helder, Rear-Admiral Hoyte Jolles, decided that his base, with 10,000 troops, its own air service, and land defences, should continue to fight.
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 At 05:00 on 15 May a German messenger reached The Hague, inviting Winkelman to Rijsoord for a meeting with von Küchler to make a written surrender.
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 From 11 May the area was reinforced by two French infantry divisions: the 60e Division d'Infanterie, a B-class division, and the newly formed naval 68e Division d'Infanterie.
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 On 13 May the Dutch troops were placed under French command and 68e Division d'Infanterie was transferred to the 7th Army.
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 There was poor communications, misunderstandings and disagreements between the Dutch and the French.
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 However, the French commander General Pierre-Servais Durand wanted his troops hidden behind obstacles.
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 On the evening of 13 May one regiment, the 271e of 68e Division d'Infanterie, occupied the Canal through Zuid-Beveland.
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 The 224e of 60 Division d'Infanterie stayed in the area separating the island of Walcheren from Zuid-Beveland.
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 The Allied forces were not grouped together enough, which enabled the Germans to defeat them even though they had less men.
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 This cut off the retreat of 27e Groupe de Reconnaissance de Division d'Infanterie, which was destroyed defending Bergen-op-Zoom.
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 An artillery bombing on the position in the evening of 14 May caused the commanding officers to leave.
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 A first attack around 08:00 on the northern sector was stopped, as the Germans had to advance over a narrow dike.
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 However, the bombing caused the battalions in the main positions to flee, and the entire line was abandoned around 14:00.
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 Middelburg, the province's capital city, was shelled by artillery, its inner city partially burning down.
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 In the evening the  Germans threatened to attack the French forces in Flushing, but most troops were evacuated over the Western Scheldt.
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 After North-Beveland had surrendered on 18 May, Zeeuws-Vlaanderen was the last remaining unoccupied Dutch territory.
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 Over 210,000 Dutch people became victims of war, including 104,000 Jews and other minorities, who were killed because of their race (genocide).
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