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This is an ad for a movie, thanks social media.

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Would you please stop posting only unsubstantive dismissive comments here?

Or maybe this is a response to new interest in the actual historic event?

(Opening weekend was 3+ weeks ago, the media blitz is long gone.)

My grandfather was left behind at Dunkirk, taken prisoner, spent the rest of the war in Poland and returned home in one piece but very thin (6ft 4 and weighing around 8 stone according to family legend). He died aged 48 a year before I was born - heart problems, which might be expected I suppose.

I'm now working with the jigsaw of records and archives in the UK to try and find a little more about what happened and where as a result of the film mainly.

News broadcasters are not allowed to advertise for movies, or anything.

Are you sure? It's a full blown interview from my perspective

It coincides with the Christopher Nolan "Dunkirk" film.

(Currently considering whether I should Britsplain Dunkirk and its significance to HN. Any takers?)

I'd read it.

I'd read it too, but I'd be very keen on a decent German version too, as the failure to push to the beach is less well covered.

According to the movie they didn't need to because it was easier to just drop bombs from the air.

Wasn't there a political reason? The air force wanted to show how great it was and the army was prevented from advancing?

The politics were involved, but in a subtler way, by warping the decision-making process. The army was exhausted and needed to rest, repair their vehicles, and resupply. There was debate about whether it should first finish off the Dunkirk pocket or let the air force finish them off, and the air force chief Göring (who was both politically strong and fantastically overconfident) insisted that he could take care of it. Very similar to his later overconfidence in the Battle of Britain, and the way it warped German strategic decision-making.

I'd like to hear it. It's better than the USplaining of U571 in that movie. You know, where the US Navy stole the Enigma machine with Bon Jovi. :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_(film)#Historical_inaccu...

While true, the BBC has always taken current popular media as a platform to have a frank discussion about the issues that media explores. It's not intended to advertise the film, so much as expand on the events portrayed for those who came out of the film wanting to know more.

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