Western Civilization II / Unit 17 WC2 1604 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dunkirk, the Fall of France, and Vichy
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The idea
In late May over three hundred thousand British and French troops were lifted from Dunkirk by navy and fishing boats. France surrendered on the twenty-second of June. Germany occupied the north; Pétain's Vichy regime ran camps, passed anti-Semitic laws and fought Britain at sea.
In practice
Wars are not won by evacuations, Churchill said.
Where people slip
The anchor's "state of war with Britain" was hostilities, undeclared.
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