Comments on: Hitler’s Grand Error at Dunkirk: Why?

by: Ken Cox

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:42:46 +0000

Teran, above, wrote “It was the climax of a powerstruggle between Hitler and the Wehrmacht Command.”

I came to this site as part of a search for information regarding a powerstruggle between Hitler and the Wermacht Command, as an explanation for Hitler stopping Guderian at the moment of victory.

Apparently, Teran holds this opinion, and I wish he had expanded on it a little.

by: Teran

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:55:37 +0000

It was the climax of a powerstruggle between Hitler and the Wehrmacht Command.

by: JLuc

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 06:41:53 +0000

Another alternative is that Hitler intended to let the Luftwaffe & Goering finish off the BEF, rather than having the Wehrmacht hog all the glory. The Nazi party and the German Army seem to have been at loggerheads on more than one occasion and Goering, as one of Hitler’s early buddies, was the only Nazi with real military power (if not competence). As a result, he often influenced military strategy in unproductive ways (cf Stalingrad resupply) due to his wish for glory.

People call it the miracle at Dunkirk, because it was really pulling a rabbit out of the hat, not because it was immediately obvious that the German ‘error’ was going to result in a successful British withdrawal.

by: The Little Boats that Could at LifeParticles.com

Sat, 26 May 2007 17:18:01 +0000

[...] Operation Dynamo, aka The Miracle of Dunkirk, began on this day in 1940. Before it ended, nearly 340,000 British and Allied troops would make it to safety and fight another day. Why would the Germans allow them to escape? Was it fear? Hubris? Or was it, as historian B.H. Liddell Hart wrote after the war, Hitler’s appreciation for the British Empire? [...]

by: Pasha

Sat, 19 May 2007 19:16:03 +0000

I believe it is not true that Hitler was so naieve to let the British troop escape in peace because he wanted things more difficult and so Peace would be impossible
Hitler wanted to have peace with britain and trun around to the real Enemy – Communist Bolshivest Jewish as he alwasy said !
His idea of Russia as Raw material and vast space was really shown on his speechs and the deep hate to the Communist is no secret !

Edward P. Von der Porten in his Book published in 19 ” The German Navy in World War Two”
said :In late May of 1940 when German Army had reached the Channel, Hitler had not yet thought seriously about the next step .
in the war againest Britain .may 21th General Raeder first brought up the Naval Operation staff study Hitler showed little interest and he said After France collaps no service other than the Navy thinking about Sea Lion “Operation of Invading England ”

Hitler also write in hs Final Testimony “I never wished a war againest Britian or America ” he never mentioned France or Poland or Russia becasue it is true he hide hostile and deep emotion to attack tgem .
Perhpas France was th least among them ; take into consideration France declared war on Germany first