Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A watan Mayu 1940, ya shiga cikin yakin Rotterdam
, yin saukar iska da kwace wasu daga cikin manyan gadojin birnin. Choltitz, kwamandan na 3rd Battalion na 16th Air Landing Regiment, ya fara shirya sojojinsa bayan ya sauko da su a Waalhaven Air Force Base. Ya aika da su zuwa gadoji a Rotterdam. Yaren mutanen Holland ba su da sojoji da yawa a kudancin birnin. Unitaya daga cikin rukunin ya ƙunshi masu yankan nama da masu yin burodi da kuma kimanin sojoji 90, waɗanda aka ƙarfafa su ta hanyar bindigogi waɗanda suka janye daga filin jirgin sama. Sojojin Holland sun ɓoye a gidajen da ke kan hanyar zuwa gadaje. A can suka yi kwanton bauna ga sojojin Jamus da suke zuwa. Dukkanin bangarorin biyu sun yi hasara. 'Yan Jamus sun yi nasarar kawo bindigar anti-tank ta PaK. Dole ne Yaren mutanen Holland su mika wuya a karkashin matsin lamba mai girma. Daga nan sai sojojin Jamus suka matsa zuwa gadoji, da sauri suka biyo baya da yawancin Kamfanin 9 na 16th Air Landing Regiment.