Why are Brits so proud about an event where Hitler let their

>>68660118
They don't really have anything to be proud of during the war.

>>68660118

They've won the war eventually, so they can paint their defeats as victories because in the end it all worked out.

I think if they didn't escape then that was it.

That loss of manpower would be too much maybe.

>>68660118
It isn't treated like a victory, it's treated as something that would've knocked us out of the war if it had failed; and the image of regular civilian ships and sailors joining navy ships and heading over to France is pretty romanticised.

You can call it an embarrassment, but leaving hundreds of thousands of infantry in a very clearly defeated France to either be slaughtered or taken prisoner would've been fucking stupid.

>>68660118
this film is probably going to be some propaganda against rise of nationalism, or brexit. yes hes gonna spin it that way, doesnt amtter what really happened

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30zCrB42Mpg

>>68660118

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>>68660153
Not getting 30 million of our people killed was pretty nice.

Dunkirk was down to French incompetence.

>>68661381
3 July 1940 best day my life

>>68660118
wait, he make another kino?

My granda was at Dunkirk, a french lady made him tea when he occupied her barn.

>the event that shaped our world
what the fuck does that even mean

many events shaped our world, NOT JUST THIS WTF

boycotting this propaganda on sheer principle desu

Brits are renowned for getting their allies troops killed.

>Gallipoli
>Dieppe
>Dunkirk