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Line 98: <blockquote>On the morning of 13 May, Student kept calling for bomber support against enemy strongpoints inside Rotterdam and the point of main effort at the bridges where the parachutists were held up. At 14:00 hours the sortie in question was flown, and its success finally led to the capitulation of Holland on 14 May 1940</blockquote> [[Kurt Student\|General Student]] had requested strikes against enemy strongpoints, not carpet-bombing of the city. Had the Germans ~~indescriminately~~indiscriminately carpet bombed the city, they would have endangered their own troops holding out around the bridges. <ref name=":4" /> Kesselring also states in his memoirs that he spent hours in heated argument with Göring on how the attacks were to be carried out, if at all.<ref name=":4" /> The arguments happened before the bombers took off and so that cannot be used as an excuse for why he did not get in contact with the bombers. The fact was that he had already admitted at Nuremberg that he was for the attack since he wanted "to present a firm attitude and secure an immediate peace" or take "severe measures". Kesselring further states:<ref name=":4" />

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