Quote Originally Posted by ||Lz3|| View Post


I have one no one has mentioned yet!

Dunkirk! "hey our british lads are tired... let them rest a day or two..."
"what!?? they escaped?! .... damn "


seriosly if hitler had finished what he started he would have destroyed completely the british expeditionary force
Actually there was no way for Hitler to close it any faster than he did. Take a look at the terrain and you'll see why.

It is bisected by the Aa Canal and the French and British had already flooded the area. The Royal Navy had brought up a lot of BBs and ACs and the French added their own BBs and ACs to cover the pocket.

Hitler himself had fought in this area in WW1 and specifically had ordered that the area be ignored. His original plan called for containing the pocket while his forces drove into France itself. The evacuation took him completely by surprise. Not only was the evacuation a cowardly move after the British had already pulled out of line without telling the Belgians, it doomed France.

If anything the British should never had evacuated and used it to launch a counter attack. Hitler's armor forces were on the ropes and more importantly its logistics was spasming and dying. The evacuation gave the Germans so many trucks it enabled them to paper over their supply problems.