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It was an anti-submarine base

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Q: Why did the germans want to capture Dunkirk?
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Did the Germans want to capture Dunkirk because it was anti-submarine base?

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This is said to be history's greatest military evacuation?

Dunkirk, the evacuation of the British from capture by the Germans in WW2.


What are facts about why Germany lost the Dunkirk?

The Germans did not lose at Dunkirk. Quite the opposite. Dunkirk was a mass retreat by the British army who had been overwhelmed in Europe by the Germans.


Where did the Germans trap the British and the french forces?

Dunkirk


Why did the Germans capture the Jews and send them to camops?

because they did not want Jews in their society.


Why did Germany want to capture Dunkirk?

They didn't really want to capture Dunkirk. What they wanted to do was to destroy the allied army which went into Belgium to stop the German invasion through the low counties (i.e. Belgium Holland and Luxembourg). Having the Allied army go into Belgium was a part of the German plan to encircle the allied army (which they did around the town of Dunkirk) and then destroy the army before the allied evacuated its army to England by sea.


What is the French city from which allied troops were evacuated in May 1940?

Dunkirk :) but the Germans bombed them as they tried to evacuate on the beaches


At the start of the war the Germans cornered french and british troops at?

dunkirk


Why did the Germans want to know were all of the Jews where?

So they could capture them and send them to concentration camps


Did the Germans surrender at the battle of Dunkirk?

On the contrary, it was a Nazi victory. The British retreated.