Norman Ohler

decision maker so they never they thought they make much better decisions than him so goering says their power will be so overwhelming that they will from now on call the shots how this war will continue and what will be done next you should let me with the luftwaffe do the job from the air the national socialist luftwaffe is going to end the western campaign

So he thought that he could destroy, it doesn't make sense, you know, even destroy the British military from planes.

Maybe you can do it, but certainly he couldn't do it.

So the tank general's

received the Haltebefehl, the stopping order, they didn't believe it when they received it because the victory, this would have been complete victory over Great Britain.

This would have been the end of Great Britain.

The whole British military was encircled.

but they did get out through Dunkirk.

That's why the movie Dunkirk by Christopher Nolan is not good because he doesn't describe what happened on the German side.

It's just this heroic British thing.

Yeah, we just got out and we reformed and then we beat, you know, this was just because Hitler was afraid of the power of his, of army high command and convinced by Göring's morphine high,

vision that he would stop it with with the air force which he couldn't which he couldn't i mean he bombed and then the british you know they weren't ships and a few ships were sunk but basically they got they got out you need to do this on the ground at least back then you would have needed to do it on the ground so that was the a big mistake by hitler that's why von manstein one of the three tank generals from february 17th was rommel von manstein and guderian and von manstein he later said

He spoke of a verloren Sieg, a lost victory.

He said the Western campaign was a lost victory because we really could have achieved the victory.

We could have dominated, you know, British...

They could have invaded Britain.

There was no more military.

Well, okay.

But if Britain doesn't have a standing army anymore, it's much easier.

They still have one.