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The psychological and the 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 command did not surrender. The Dutch surrendered in the late afternoon of 14 May and signed the capitulation early the next morning.{{sfn|Hooton|2007|p=52}}
Rotterdam was one of the few major [[Allies of World War II|Allied cities]] which were virtually totally destroyed, together with [[Warsaw]], [[Manila]], [[Southampton]], [[Milan]] and [[East London]], then an industrial area. This is one of the primary reasons Rotterdam has a heavy presence of [[skyscrapers]], as do the other cities listed, compared to [[Amsterdam]], [[Krakow]],
==Prelude==
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