Utrecht – The telephone of the Utrecht mayor Gerhard ter Pelkwijk rings. It is 4:00 AM, May 10, 1940, and the Germans have bombed Waalhaven, IJpenburg and Schiphol, the air defense and the Chief of Police report to him in turn on the phone. “So it’s war with Germany”, the mayor realizes, and he quickly gets dressed.
May 10, 1940: this is how the Utrecht mayor Ter Pelkwijk experienced the day that Germany invaded
