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by
John Ross Schroeder
Rotterdam is Western Europe's discharglng center
for /arge oil tankers. Above
is one of eight
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petroleumhavens. "
T
HE MIRACLE
of Rotter–
dam is much like the
miracle of neighboring
West Germany. Both have
been reborn from ruins.
Many German cities were de–
stroyed by Allied bombers dur–
ing the closing years of World
War
11.
Likewise Rotterdam in 1940. In
one hour the bombs of the
Luftwaffe
(Air Force) set fires that turned
Rotterdam into a virtual desert. Six
hundred forty acres of buildings
were destroyed. Twenty-five thou–
sand families were left homeless.
Nine hundred people died.