Comments by "John Burns" (@johnburns4017) on "Dunkirk from the German Perspective | Animated History" video.

  1. The Luftwaffe lost the air battle over Dunkirk.
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  2. No The French Army was poor. They should have stopped the German advance.
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  3. The Germans only reused soft skinned British vehicles. Mainly by butchered parts of sabotaged vehicles to make up a running one. Most vehicles had their engines run with oil drained seizing up, making them inoperable, radiators punctured, hoses slashed, tyres slashed, etc. The Germans did use captured British Matilda 2 tanks (Rommel himself used one), but these were captured in the deserts, which the British eventually recaptured.
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  4. The German advance on Dunkirk was because the British and French were falling back to the ships, a controlled retreat, rather than anything wonderful the Germans were doing. Montgomery was in command of a corps, destroying all bridges behind him taking his corps intact to the beaches. The Germans still lost a lot of men at Dunkirk and in France overall. More research is needed on this vid.
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