175 - Dünkirchen, 1940
The WW2 Podcast
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Did the British Counterattack Rattle the Germans?
There's nothing in place, no higher command structure to organise that. The Germans were a land-centric army. They had no concept at all of the power of the Royal Navy and its ability to take that number of men off those beaches. It went like day-day in reverse. Nobody thought, you know, you could go back the same way. And then lo and behold, you get this counterattack at Arras,. which was not that well conducted and was not that powerful, but completely caught one of the panzer divisions in the flank - it gave him a hell of a fight.
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