On the afternoon of May 14th, 1940, beleaguered citizens in the Dutch city of Rotterdam looked skyward as they heard the approaching drone of German bombers; through the thick, noxious smoke ...

Rotterdam has published an official list of 1,150 people who are known to have died when the city was carpet-bombed at the outbreak of the Second World War in 1940. The list is the first official ...

Rotterdam on Thursday remembers the World War II bombardment by German planes 75 years ago in which 900 people died and vast swathes of the city were destroyed. Almost 80,000 people lost their homes ...

On May 14, 1940 a Nazi bombardment flattened buildings and sparked an inferno that destroyed most of downtown Rotterdam, creating an architects' playground during post-World War II reconstruction ...