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

[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).