Kammala jumla mai zuwa: RAF ta fara kai harin sama a Yaƙin Duniya na II a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1942 da nufin masana'antar Philips da ke tsakiyar gari, wanda fararen hula 148 suka mutu, duk da cewa an kai harin ne a ranar Lahadi ta hanyar saukar jiragen sama masu saukar ungulu. Babban hare-haren iska, gami da bombardment na Luftwaffe a ranar 19 ga Satumba 1944 yayin
Operation Market Garden, ya lalata manyan sassan birnin kuma ya kashe fararen hula 227 yayin da ya bar 800 da suka ji rauni. Sake ginin da ya biyo baya ya bar ragowar tarihi kaɗan kuma lokacin sake ginin bayan yaƙin ya ga manyan tsare-tsaren gyara a cikin salon tsaunuka, wasu daga cikinsu an aiwatar da su. A lokacin, ba a damu da tarihin tarihi ba. A cikin shekarun 1960, an gina sabon zauren gari kuma wanda ya riga ya zama Neo-Gothic (1867) ya rushe don yin hanya don hanyar da aka tsara ta hanyar da ba ta taɓa faruwa ba.