Phase II is certainly brushed over in most accounts of the battle. The narrative normally goes right from Dunkirk to the Wehrmacht marching into Paris as if little fighting took place in the interim.
You’re right. And it’s a shame. The Germans displayed some of their more innovative panzer tactics, and operational techniques in Phase II, against a more coherent and cohesive [initially] French defense.
And Rommel not only bagged the 51st Highlander Division by himself, but set a speed record on the route march to Cherbourg thyat broke one established by the Mongols some 700 years before.
That’s very true. Much like the fact that the battles in Norway get lost in the fog with the western offensive. Even in these newspaper accounts it has almost completely disappeared. World War II history is full of interesting gaps with Phase II of the attack on France being one of them. We are also going to get to witness another forgotten battle here pretty soon and I’ll give you a hint what it is...name the first Axis capital taken by British troops.