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Defeat, Deliverance or Victory? Which one of these best describes Dunkirk?
On the 11th of May, 1940 German Wehrmacht unexpectedly evaded the Maginot line and burst through the Ardennes region of Southern Belgium based on the idea of Blitzkrieg, ‘Lightening War’ in which German panzers played the largest part. By 14th May of 1940, German tanks led by Heinz Guderian had crossed the River Meuse and had cut a fifty mile gap in the Allied front. Six days later they had reached the Channel. When the news broke out, Churchill, having realised German forces were too strong, ordered the implementation of “Operation Dynamo”, a plan to evacuate the fully trained and equipped British Expeditionary Force (BEF) from the Northern French port of Dunkirk, originally formulated by Vice Admiral Ramsey. German halt orders of the panzers facilitated a large part of the evacuation with troops helplessly trapped in a small pocket of land. The operation was put into action on the 27th May, 1940, lasting nine tireless days. The allied forces hugely underestimated the strength of Hitler’s army; it resulted in a hasty retreat of the BEF where there seemed to be no other option but to evacuate the troops from the port or simply witness it get captured in its entirety.
Using any relevant evidence and my own background knowledge to suggest why Dunkirk was a Defeat for the British.
At an allied viewpoint Dunkirk can be described as a defeat in three different ways
1) The number of soldiers either killed or captured in action emphasising the disorderly and panicked nature of evacuation.
2) A visible decrease in morale and demoralisation amongst British armed forces and the British public as a result of the events at Dunkirk.
3) Military defeat, described as the large loss of craft i.e. planes, vehicles and ships, along with many thousands of tonnes of weaponry and equipment taking into account tanks, ammunition and guns,...
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