Norman Ohler

So then the Germans invaded, like occupied all the cities on the canal back to England to kind of cut off the British completely.

So they couldn't even flee.

But there was just Dunkirk was open, the last port that was open.

And the German army was like,

You know, they were already on the outskirts of Dunkirk.

They could have just taken it and closed that, you know, that hole for the British military to get out.

But Hitler then did his famous, and this is all the dynamic of the Western campaign.

You know, a lot of things happen every day.

And then they're saying like, we're going to have Dunkirk tomorrow and then it's over.

And then Hitler stops the tanks.

It's his famous Haltebefehl, the order to stop.

And, you know, they were all on meth, you know, they didn't want to stop.

But Hitler was not on meth.

Hitler was, he was, he basically, it was a little bit similar than Berlin Munich thing.

Hitler didn't really understand that campaign.

It was too fast for him.

Because they didn't say like, oh, they're all on meth.

They're not going to sleep.

They're going to behave erratically.

They didn't discuss this.