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Most popular discussions of the 1940 Battle of France end with the evacuations at Dunkirk, with the fall of France a foregone conclusion. Yet fighting continued for some three weeks following the end of the evacuation. Was France truly doomed by the Dunkirk encirclement?

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Elm11 is age 19 in Dunkirk, France

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Popular understandings of the Fall of France seem to focus almost exclusively on the encirclement of Dunkirk and the destruction of the Allied forces in Belgium throughout late May, 1940. Yet the weeks during and following Dynamo were characterized by fierce fighting, and massive subsequent operations were required to breach French defensive lines on the Somme and to isolate the Maginot Line. Was the German success in Belgium decisive enough that these operations could be characterized as 'mopping-up,' albeit on a massive scale, or was the fate of France only decided in subsequent battles East of Paris?

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