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German forces attadr Boulogne, in order to clear the way to Dunkirk. The battle will last four bloody days. On the 25th, the situation is more than critical for the French Remnants of the french forces are surrounded near the …

1940-05-25

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German forces attadr Boulogne, in order to clear the way to Dunkirk. The battle will last four bloody days. On the 25th, the situation is more than critical for the French Remnants of the french forces are surrounded near the Citadelle. Despite several assaults and honorable proposals to surrender, the castle is still desperatly held by the french During the last night one hundred French will try to break through the endrclement to reach Dunkirk and the rest of the allied forces. But it quickly turns to be impossible. On the 25th May at dawn, the germans assault the Citadel with ladders, like in a middle-age hollywood movie. It will be the final assault. The very last French survivors will surrender, and Germans will grant them the honor of war, as combat continued in other part of the city. These men blocked the whole 2nd PzD during 4 days, allowing many of their brothers in arms to embark in Dunkirk.

Boulogne Sur Mer, France

The Battle of Dunkirk was fought in Dunkirk (Dunkerque), France, during the Second World War, between the Allies and Nazi Germany. As the Allies were losing the Battle of France on the Western Front, the Battle of Dunkirk was the defense and evacuation to Britain of British and other Allied forces in Europe from 26 May to 4 June 1940. After the Phoney War, the Battle of France began in earnest on 10 May 1940. To the east, the German Army Group B invaded the Netherlands and advanced westward. In response, the Supreme Allied Commander, French General Maurice Gamelin, initiated "Plan D" and British and French troops entered Belgium to engage the Germans in the Netherlands. French planning for war relied on the Maginot Line fortifications along the German–French border protecting the region of Lorraine but the line did not cover the Belgian border. German forces had already crossed most of the Netherlands before the French forces had arrived. Gamelin instead committed the forces under his command, three mechanized forces, the French First and Seventh Armies and the British Expeditionary Force (BEF), to the River Dyle. On 14 May, German Army Group A burst through the Ardennes and advanced rapidly westward toward Sedan, turning northward to the English Channel, using Generalfeldmarschall Erich von Manstein's plan Sichelschnitt (under the German strategy Fall Gelb), effectively flanking the Allied forces.

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