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...mistakes, Halder said, were made on the Allied side. Hitler allowed the British Army to escape at Dunkirk by personally ordering the attack on Paris. It was Hitler who failed to take Moscow in August 1942, by ordering all eastern reserves into the Ukraine. He had a mystical fear of Moscow because of Napoleon's fate. The Führer, according to Halder, thought he could crush the Russians by taking Stalingrad and Leningrad, because they were named for the two most venerated Bolshevist leaders...
...British claim that Field Marshal Alexander was "the last man off Dunkirk...
TIME [Aug. 6] refers to Laborite Lieut. General Mason MacFarlane as the "last man to leave the beach at Dunkirk...
...Last at Dunkirk...
...official French report says that Vice Admiral Abrial left June 4, 1940; the British official report says that Major General Alexander left June 3. But because the evacuation of Dunkirk was primarily a British show, Alexander seems most likely to receive history's accolade...