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175 - Dünkirchen, 1940

The WW2 Podcast

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Did Hitler's Hawke Order at Dunkirk Really Work?

When you go for the unit counts, there's very little complaint. They all need a Hawke. And this happens after a major armoured advance. You need to pause to refuel, replenish, re-plan, reorganise. That's the norm. Yet, I think the documentary filmmakers have glossed this up into a drama that it wasn't. There's actually no commentary comment, apart from officers after the war,. When of course Hitler had been defeated, had made these mal decisions at Stalingrad and Kursk. And they then say, well, of course, you got it wrong at Dunkirk as well. It plays to the British narrative as well, doesn't

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