later, general erich von manstein would write about this delay, as a serious mistake by hitler that prevented him from defeating england , we will read a fragment of this letter. the fact that the british army was given the opportunity to evacuate from dunkirk is hitler's decisive mistake, it prevented him from later deciding to invade england and then made it possible the british to continue the war in africa and italy, general erich von manstein thought so, but hitler decided that to destroy the allied group. it is necessary to wait until the artillery is pulled up to dunkirk, and the infantry is up and british intelligence has learned about this, which has intercepted unencrypted messages. what was not slowly reported to minston church, and then, after consulting with the command, he gave the order to prepare for the evacuation of british troops from the french port as a result of may 26, more than 700 ships of the navy. arrived at dunkirk the french, preparing to fight the germans, decided that the ships had arrived to bombard the german positions. and they learned about the real plans of