1941 WW II NY Times newspaper wth photo ROTTERDAM Netherlands destroyed by Nazis

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1941 WW II NY Times newspaper with a smuggled photo showing the destruction to ROTTERDAM in the Netherlands by Nazi Germany when they occupied the Netherlands in 1940 -
inv # 1N-241
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
NY Times
dated May 20, 1941.
This newspaper contains a prominent inside page 8" x 6" photo headlined: "SMUGGLED PICTURE SHOWS SWEEPING DEVASTATION WROUGHT BY NAZIS IN ROTTERDAM." This was the first widely viewed public image of the
extensive damage done to Rotterdam in the Netherlands by the Nazis forces in May, 1940 when they occupied the Netherlands
.
The German bombing of Rotterdam, also known as the Rotterdam Blitz, was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II. The objective was to support the German troops fighting in the city, break Dutch resistance and force the Dutch to surrender. Even though preceding negotiations resulted in a ceasefire, the bombardment took place nonetheless, in conditions which remain controversial, and destroyed almost the entire historic city centre, killing nearly 900 people and making 85,000 others homeless.
The psychological and physical success of the raid, from the German perspective, led the Oberkommando der Luftwaffe (OKL) to threaten to destroy the city of Utrecht if the Dutch Government did not surrender. The Dutch capitulated early the next morning.
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