Documentary - 50 mins
Audience - General
Classification - Exempt
Region - 0
Format - PAL
Language - English

Product weight 120g

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 DECISION AT DUNKIRK

In May 1940 the British Army in France was facing annihilation at the hands of powerful German armoured formations. Yet, with such a resounding victory within his grasp, Hitler uncharacteristically ordered his tanks to halt, enabling the British to make a dramatic escape from the beaches of Dunkirk.

Why did Hitler ignore the advice of his tank commanders? Did he, as some suggest, actually want the British to escape?

THE PHANTOM INVASION

By June 1944 Adolf Hitler had become convinced that the main Allied invasion of France would be launched against the Pas de Calais. Hitler therefore ensured that this section of the French coastline had been fortified at the expense of other, more vulnerable areas along the same coast. Even when the Allied forces began to land on the Normandy beaches, Hitler still refused to succumb to what he believed to be an obvious and deliberate deception. He maintained the heavy defences at the Pas de Calais, starving his armies of much needed assistance where his fortifications were at their weakest and most vulnerable.

Why did Hitler become so convinced of the threat to the Pas de Calais that he sacrificed the security of other possible coastal invasion sites?

Was it because there were secret Allied plans for a subsequent attack in that area?

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