Notes by an Eye-Witness to the Burning of Rotterdam,an Assignment carried out by Lt. Col. von Choltitz IS PARIS BURNING? LARRY COLLINS and DOMINIQUE LAPIERRE SIMON AND SCHUSTER NEW YORK (General Dietrich von Choltitz, Fortress Commander) For this officer of irreproachable loyalty whom Hitler had decided to send to Paris, the war had begun at 5:30 on May 10, 1940. Jumping out of the first JU-52 to land on Rotterdam airport, Lt. Colonel von Choltitz, at the head of the 3rd Battalion of the 16th Regiment of Airborne Infantry, had that morning led the whole German blitzkrieg in the west. He was the first German officer to invade the Low…