Rotterdam that is now risen from the ruins, added the latest and handsomest building de Bijenkorf (“Beehive”) department store, designed by Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer.

Nazi Stukas zeroed in on Rotterdam on May 10, 1940, and they did not let up until they had leveled or gutted 11,000 buildings. But well before liberation, an underground city-planning commission went to work drafting plans for the 20th century Rotterdam that is now risen from the ruins.

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