Germany pushed the British to the beaches at Dunkirk. In one of the greatest escapes of all time was the evacuation of thousands of British troops across the straights. In addition to the Royal Navy, any British citizen with a boat rushed across the straights to retrieve troops.
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You might be referring to the instance where Hitler stopped his armies from wiping out the British Expeditionary Force at Dunkirk. His Generals pushed for total annihilation of the Allied Forces, but were overruled. Other than that, the Germans wining control of France, Belgium & The Netherlands was complete.
The british began a policy of impressment, or siezing Americans at sea and drafting them into the british navy.That angeredmany americans.
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The Germans were pushed back just a few miles from the coast in some places, just a few hundred yards in others. None were pushed out of France on D-Day. Many German reinforcements were sent into France in the weeks following D-Day.
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The scene of the evacuation of Allied (mainly British) forces from France during World War II in 1940 was the Channel Coast of France at a port called Dunkirk. Having been pushed back then surrounded by advancing German ground-troops, the majority of the British and French forces trapped at Dunkirk escaped to sea in a daring and largely successful series of day- and night-evacuations.
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