For example,when the German defeated the allied of French n
British troops,the allied retreated to a bay,waiting for their
ships from Britain to rescue them.At this point,the German troops
can easily attack the encircled allied armies n catch all the
allied troops.
That would be the "Dunkirk" episode.
Here is an interpretation of that event by William Engdahl:
...Guderian's tank forces were pulling tight a fatal net
around the core of French and British troops, driving them towards
the port of Dunkirk on the sea, when one of the most extraordinary
events of the war occurred.
General Guderian had
advanced an astonishing 250 miles across enemy terrain in only 11
days. Then, with his Panzer forces at Gravelines, only ten
miles from Dunkirk, orders came down on May 24, that his tanks were
to halt.
Guderian's forces had
been within hours of capturing more than 300,000 of the
best-trained professional soldiers of the British Expeditionary
Force, along with some 100,000 of France's best -trained and
equipped men. Guderian at first read the order with disbelief.
His commander, General von Kleist, stated that, on
receiving the order, "I decided to ignore it, and to push on across
the canal. But then came a more emphatic order that I was to
withdraw behind the canal. My tanks were kept halted there for
three days."
The order had come
directly from Hitler. The three days pause was intended, though
Hitler did not tell his generals at the time, to allow Britain's
best fighting force escape by ship across the Channel to England.
He intended it as a clear gesture of good will towards his British
adversary.
That was the "miracle of
Dunkirk," which Churchill's strictly censored wartime press
propaganda in England portrayed as divine providence smiling down
on the chosen British people. The British population would have
been no doubt quite surprised, had they been allowed to learn the
truth, that the one who had smiled on their army at Dunkirk had in
fact been Hitler.
A week later, referring
to this "miracle of Dunkirk," Churchill told the House of Commons
and the entire nation over the BBC radio, "We shall defend our
island, whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on the beaches, we
shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields
and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never
surrender..."
It wasn't exactly the
response Hitler had in mind...
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/History/
