The exposed stretch of dam leading to the bunker-complex became known among the Germans as the Totendam.[9] Rotterdam, the bridges over the Waal River, where two school companies of Royal Netherlands Marines managed to keep a complete German army at bay until the bombardment of Rotterdam forced the commanding general Winkelman to accept a partial surrender. Elsewhere, Dutch forces stayed in the War, in Europe the fight continued from Zeeland (Battle of Zeeland) to Dunkirk, where a Dutch Royal Navy officer, Lodo van Hamel, assisted in the evacuation of allied troops and was the last man to withdraw. Van Hamel was first to parachute back into the Netherlands a few months later, with the mission to set up the resistance in the Netherlands.