On the Western Front, the German commanders had vied with each other during May 11 on how far they could advance. 'Even-thing wonderful so far,' General Rommel, commanding the 7th Panzer Division, wrote to his wife that day, and he added: 'Am way ahead of my neighbours'. […]On the morning of May 14, confronted by a stronger Dutch defence than he had envisaged, Hitler included in a directive of that day an order to break Dutch resistance.
From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, pp. 63, 65.
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