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That's the Explorers Podcast. Hello everyone and welcome to history of the Second World War, episode

199, The Fall of France, failure at Abbeville.

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like the latest episode on a British report entitled British Strategy and a Certain

Eventuality, with that eventuality being the defeat of France. Kind of just a deep dive

into what the British were planning to do if France was defeated. You can find out more about becoming a member

over at History of the Second World War.com slash members. During the last week of May, the Germans

had a problem. Their attack into France and Belgium had gone very, very well, and the BEF and a major

portion of the French army were now trapped.

The hard-marching divisions had moved into positions where any kind of breakout attempt

was impossible, and it was clear that operations in the north had transitioned into a

mopping up exercise. Back at German High Command, this meant that focus shifted away from

the operations in the north and instead to what would come after and into what would come to be

known as Fal Rot or Case Red. The basic outline of this plan was contained within

Fuhrer Directive 13, which would be issued on May 24, 1940.

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