The city had capitulated an hour or so earlier, after a night and morning of terror during which German *planes bombed all military objectives in the neighbourhood and machinegunned districts around the harbour defences.
Already German troops had taken control of all military aerodromes, including Fornebo just outside the city, where 50 Nazi planes landed.
With these they threatened to blow the inhabitants out of the city if resistance was shown.
By noon the main station was packed with fleeing evacuees, including women and children carrying all the possessions they could gather together. All seemed dazed.
The air was filled with the ceaseless'roar of aeroplane engines, apparently intended to terrify the inhabitants.
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