Did Hitler stop his troops in Dunkirk because he wanted peace with the British?

[buritobr]

In 1940, the British troops could go back to England through the port of Dunkirk because the German ground troops stoped. Do you believe in the version that says that Hitler gave the order to stop in order to start a peace talk with Winston Churchill? According to this version, Hitler wanted to invade the USSR without the need to take care on the west.

[SoLongAtlas]

It was a tactical screwup on Hitler's part. He ordered a stand down to surround them into giving up and giving more leeway to the Luftwaffe and Goehring to do strafing runs. If he ordered a push to the beach, it would have been game over for the British and the French.

If you study enough of WW2, you will find that Hitler was not the best tactician and made the worst blunders (from Germany's perspective) in Dunkirk, Russia, Normandy, etc. It was due to his arrogance and the fact that no one in the top brass on the German side wanted to go up against him formally to his face, the Oath (some did in other ways).

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Goering was a brilliant pilot himself, but a s**ty tactician. Every time he got a leeway from Hitler to do something, be it Dunkirk, Battle of England or supplying the Sixth Army, it ended in a failure.

As of Dunkirk itself, there's no secret Hitler was very keen on "dividing the world" with the British Empire, which would also explain his later neglect of the African front, when he could cut the British off from Suez and go as far as Middle Eastern oil fields. Russia was his obsession.