49. CD, 224–5.
50. TBJG, 1/7, 356 (19 March 1940), 357 (20 March 1940).
51. TBJG, 1/7, 358 (20 March 1940).
52. As pointed out by Lukacs, 221.
53. TBJG, 1/8, 66 (21 April 1940).
54. TBJG, 1/8, 73 (25 April 1940).
55. Hillgruber, Strategie, 58.
56. DRZW, ii.283–4; Below, 228.
57. Below, 228–9.
58. DRZW, ii.282.
59. DRZW, ii.266–7.
60. Schroeder, 101–2, 349–50, n. 196; Below, 229–30.
61. Below, 231.
62. DRZW, ii.284–96; Weinberg III, 125–30; Gruchmann, Zweiter Weltkrieg, pt.I, ch.5; Parker, Struggle, 27ff.; Churchill, ii.66–104.
63. See DRZW, ii.296 for Rundstedt’s post-war self-exculpatory view. See also Guenther Blumen-tritt, Von Rundstedt. The Soldier and the Man, London, 1952, 74–8. Churchill recognized, even writing in the late 1940s, the misleading nature of the German generals’ accounts (Churchill, ii.68–70). See also, on the ‘halt order’, Gruchmann, Zweiter Weltkrieg, 63; Weinberg III, 130–31; Parker, Struggle, 35–6; Irving, HW, 120–22; Charles Messenger, The Last Prussian. A Biography of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt, 1875–1953, London etc., 1991,113–20; Lukacs, Duel, 90–97. Delpla, La ruse, here especially 290–92 (also François Delpla, Hitler, Paris, 1999, 326–7) is alone in interpeting the ‘halt order’ as part of a complex diplomatic manoeuvre, involving Göring and Dahlerus, to hold the British to ransom and force them to end the war on German terms.
64. Schroeder, 105–6 (where Hitler’s comment is dated to the day that he learned of the French armistice offer — 17 June).
65. Below, 232.
66. IMG, xxviii.433, Doc.1809-PS (Jodl-Tagebuch); Hans-Adolf Jacobsen (ed.), Dokumente zum Westfeldzug 1940, Göttingen/Berlin/Frankfurt, 1960, 73–86; Jacobsen, 1939–1945. Der Zweite Weltkrieg, 146; Hans-Adolf Jacobsen, Dünkirchen. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des Westfeldzuges 1940, Neckargemünd, 1958, 70–122, especially 94–5. Jodl repeated after the war that the notion that Hitler refused to send the tanks on to Dunkirk was a ‘legend’. Hitler, he stated, had hesitated to adopt Brauchitsch’s recommendation to do this because the terrain was not suitable for tanks and the risk was too great that the tanks would not be available for the thrust to the south. However, he left the decision to the local commanders, who chose not to deploy the tanks against Dunkirk (IfZ, ZS 678 (Generaloberst Alfred Jodl), ‘Hitler, eine militärische Führerpersönlichkeit. Ein Gespräch mit Generaloberst Jodl von Freg.Kapt. Meckel’, May-July 1946, Fol.3).
67. Below, 232–3.
68. Halder KTB, i.319 (25 May 1940).
69. IMG, xxviii.434, D0C.1809-PS (Jodl-Tagebuch); Jacobsen, 1939–45, 146–7; Below, 233.
70. Halder KTB, i.318–19 (24 May 1940, 25 May 1940).
71. DRZW, ii.297.
72. Halder KTB, i.318 (24 May 1940); Below, 232.
73. DGFP, D, 9, 484, N0.357.
74. DRZW, ii.296; Weinberg III, 130–31.
75. Halder KTB, i.320–21 (26 May 1940).
76. In fact, General Sir John Gort, the commander of the British Expeditionary Force, had ordered the evacuation only at 7 p.m. on 26 May, and as few as 8,000 troops were evacuated during the following twenty-four hours (Lukacs, Duel, 96–7). The evacuation continued for another week. Dunkirk fell only on 4 June.
77. See Lukacs, Duel, 97ff., for Churchill’s political isolation during the days of the evacuation, and the pressure of those wanting to sue for terms, articulated above all by Lord Halifax.
78. Below, 233; Schroeder, 102.
79. See Eugen Weber, The Hollow Years. France in the 1930s, New York/London, 1996, 272–9.
80. Weinberg III, 131; Below, 233–4.
81. DRZW, ii.307; Oxford Companion, 414.
82. Schroeder, 106. Trick photography later turned Hitler’s characteristic gesture of raising his leg and slapping his thigh into a jig for joy (Lukacs, Duel, 142).
83. CD, 263–4, 268.
84. Below, 234; Domarus, 1527–8.
85. Lukacs, Duel, 139.
86. CD, 267 (18–19 June 1940).
87. CD, 266–7; Schmidt, 495.
88. TBJG, 1/8, 202 (3 July 1940).
89. Churchill and Roosevelt: The Complete Correspondence, vol.i, ed. Warren Kimball, Princeton, 1984, 49–51, Doc.C-17X (quotation, 49).
90. Schmidt, 495; CD, 266–7; Domarus, 1528.
91. IMG, xxviii.431, Doc. 1809-PS (Jodl-Tagebücher).
92. TBJG, 11/4, 492 (10 June 1942).
