Why didn't Hitler crush UK forces at Dunkirk?

before the anti-anglo circlejerk commences here's a friendly reminder that if the french could defend their own fucking country the BEF wouldn't have even been in france

don't see why the british army was obliged to be annihilated because of french ineptitude

Because of the Eternal Frank

>Although Churchill had promised the French that the British would cover their escape, on the ground it was the French who held the line while the last remaining British soldiers were evacuated.
>Enduring concentrated German artillery fire and Luftwaffe strafing and bombs, the French stood their ground. On 2 June (the day the last of the British units embarked onto the ships),[Notes 2] the French began to fall back slowly, and by 3 June the Germans were about two miles (3 km) from Dunkirk.
>The night of 3 June was the last night of evacuations. At 10:20 on 4 June, the Germans hoisted the swastika over the docks from which so many British and French troops had escaped under their noses.[40][41][42]

>The desperate resistance of Allied forces, especially the French 12th Motorised Infantry Division from the Fort des Dunes, bought time for the evacuation of the bulk of the troops. The Wehrmacht captured some 35,000 soldiers, almost all of them French. These men had protected the evacuation until the last moment and were unable to embark.

Easily could have, but

>generals wanted to save armor for Fall Rot
>Goering assured him that those retreating could be dealt with from air
As such, they simply closed the pocket as the forces fell back and most casualties were had in the channel instead of on land, excluding captured.

This, "Oh the French fought, the British RAN"

Yeah, because they were fucked if they stayed, why fight to the death over someone else's country? Not retreating is idiotic on every level and would have cost the allies the war.

The French were indeed pretty pathetic in WW2, but Britain is the country that's the least allowed to give shit to anyone for not being able to win a war alone given that they're the only country in Western European history to have literally NEVER won any european war without being largely helped by allies

This, people lash out at things they will necer comprehend

It's almost as if they have a sea between them and the rest of Europe and need allies to secure friendly ports

Just because their land army was too shit to ever land in Europe and directly attack their enemies on their coast doesn't mean it's a good excuse

America had no ally in Continental Europe during WW2, didn't prevent them from landing forcibly and fucking Germany's shit up

t. Lindybeige

Americans got fucking slaughtered at Omaha though

And their allies did 3/5ths of the work

Granda was on the far right.

>50% of troops evacuated were French

But user, Britain had two beaches at Normandy...

t. American

In our defense, Omaha and Utah were the most defended beaches at Normandy. Fucking Omaha had Pointe du Hoc over looking it.

They did land on Europe to perform raids but I think you are understating the difficulty of supply in completely hostile territory.

Plus consider a board game like Diplomacy rather than a "1v1 me bro" RTS or shooter scenario that seems to be the basis of this complaint
Always having an ally is smart play, seems cripplingly autistic to find fault with this.

And 100% of those who fought to delay the Germans and make the evacuation possible were French
Also, most evacuated French troops were evacutated in extremis on the last night (3 June) after all the Brits had been saved

It's in the text there

>And 100% of those who fought to delay the Germans and make the evacuation possible were French
Not true. You shouldn't downplay the suffering of soldiers because you want to /int/post, not when some of them are still about atleast. Downplay the suffering in Verdun or Cannae all you want.

Britain tried several times to perform landings in Europe through history actually
It never ended well
I blame the shitty quality of their army
Britain is a naval nation, if the fighting is on the land, they're better off when they have allies to fight for them

He couldn't.

>America had no ally in Continental Europe during WW2, didn't prevent them from landing forcibly and fucking Germany's shit up

americans were in the minority of allied troops invading normandy and had RAF and Royal Navy cover whilst doing so

only if you count Canadians as British

Americans were the clear plurality, almost a majority.

more importantly for the french who did stand at dunkirk - seemingly the only french to actually stand their ground at all in may of 1940, the only hope for the redemption of france lay in the british, the british had to stay in the fight for france to have any hope after its own army had failed so utterly.

the french who were evacuated almost entirely surrendered to the germans upon returning to france, the british when they returned, returned in numbers and kept their promise to fight until france was freed

>In our defense, Omaha and Utah were the most defended beaches at Normandy. Fucking Omaha had Pointe du Hoc over looking it
Omaha was nasty, Utah probably the easiest of the beaches, certainly proved no more difficult than any of the anglocanadian beaches.

Omaha on the other hand was a bit of a bastard, selected primarily because a link between Utah and the other landings was needed, it was also the landing that suffered most from mischance and questionable command decisions.

>Utah probably the easiest of the beaches
There was an entire regiment there, i wouldn't call it the easiest

I'm pretty sure that initially the Germans were bombing only military assets and began bombing civilian centers after the British began their terror bombing campaign.

Utah had half as many casualties as the next easiest beach

logistics.

the tanks were in need of fuel and maintenance. the men still marched. horses still carried most of the stuff.

Hitler paranoid about imaginary counter attacks and Goering convinced him that the German air force could finish them off.

he failed to realize the threat posed by bloodthristy anglos lead by a warmonger

>British terror bombing
>in 1940

Logistics.

The German forces halted briefly so as not to overextend their supply lines thinking they would be able to crush the British forces at will but were outwitted and made to look foolish once again by the clever Anglo.

But that's fucking bullshit, the Brits were willing to restrict bombing to military targets while the Germans did the same to them as per Roosevelt's appeal.

Was Hitler known for great decisions?

It just means the deliberate bombing of civilian centers to target the morale of the enemy.

Utah has a beach?
I thought it was surrounded by the land.

That fear seemed to have been tossed out the window during Operation Barbarossa

>inb4 someone posts the answer that Hitler gave to this question

I don't fucking get it. Hitler said this was the reason and yet you think its annoying and not worth posting.

Please, just kys.

he thought it was fraticide to do that to the English.

Bullshit, a battalion of rifle of the Rifle Brigade were left behind to help the French.