Dunkirk From The German Perspective Explore how ⚔️ the Battle of Dunkirk looked through the eyes of the German soldiers who almost ended the war in 1940. As 338,000 Allied troops awaited annihilation on the French coast, Wehrmacht units under commanders like Heinz Guderian and Erwin Rommel stood poised for victory—only to receive the fateful “halt order” that froze their advance. While the Luftwaffe bombed the beaches in vain, the British Expeditionary Force escaped across the Channel in what wo