Video: 'The Allied Clusterf**k - The Battle of France - WW2 - 039 - May 25 1940' (Germans reach English Channel at 5:47)

(Monday, May 20, 1940, 7:00 p.m. Western European Summer Time; during the Battle of France, part of the Western Front of the World War II) — In a crowning series of staggering blows dealt to the Allies in the last few days, the German army reached the English Channel tonight at Abbeville, France, severing all communication between the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) in the north and the main French army in the south.

Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary) 03.France Falls (May – June 1940)' (Germans reach English Channel at 39:47)

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