As an American I have to laugh at tales of British “heroism” over Dunkirk. They all would have been POWs or dead had it not been for Hitler’s unfathomable stupidity in stopping the Wehrmacht from capturing them. And the 30,000 French troops they claim were “pivotal” were nothing of the kind.
>As an American I have to laugh at tales of British “heroism” over Dunkirk. They all would have been POWs or dead had it not been for Hitler’s unfathomable stupidity in stopping the Wehrmacht from capturing them. And the 30,000 French troops they claim were “pivotal” were nothing of the kind.
Actually once the British built up the defenses at Dunkirk there was a pretty hard fought defense going on there by the French and the British. The heroism was all the small boat with mostly volunteer crews that sailed in to pickup the men from the beaches. Those craft had no defenses against air attacks and were easy prey for German Air force. As well as the RAF capture of air supremacy over Dunkirk that made the evacuation possible at all.
However, you are correct that it was Hitler who prevented the Panzers from taking Dunkirk. There were halted 10 miles away from the port at a time where there we no defenses of the port and very few troops protecting it.