Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pana 14 May 1940, Hondo yeDutch, isina kana dziviriro yemhepo, yakanga ichiri kumira. Hondo yeThe Hague yakanga yaguma nekukundwa kweLuftwaffe "Fallschirmjäger", yaitungamirirwa naKurt Student. Hondo yeRotterdam
yakanga ichiri kuenderera mberi. Hitler akatsamwa akarayira kuti kurwisa kwechiDutch kuputswe nokukurumidza. Hermann Göring, uyo akanga abatanidza Netherlands muFall Gelb nemhaka yokuti yakapa nzvimbo dzendege dzinobetsera muhondo yokurwisana neGreat Britain, akarayira Kesselring kubhomba guta racho. Rudolf Schmidt's XXXIX Corps vakanga vakagadzirira kurwisa Rotterdam mangwanani akatevera.