Siege of Dunkirk (1944–1945)

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Dunkirk (September 1944)
Course of the Western Front (autumn 1944)
Allied soldiers in La Panne near Dunkirk after the German surrender

The siege of Dunkirk in World War II by Canadian and Czechoslovak troops from October 1944 was not a priority goal for the Allies after Ostend was conquered and the port there opened for supply purposes from the end of September 1944.

During an armistice from October 3 to 6, 1944, on the initiative of the French Red Cross , 17,500 French civilians as well as Allied and German wounded were evacuated from Dunkirk .

The German units under Vice Admiral Friedrich Frisius surrendered to Brigadier General Alois Liška , commander of the Czechoslovak Brigade , one day after the surrender of the German Reich on May 9, 1945 without any further conditions.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JW Monahan: The Containing of Dunkirk. 1947
  2. ↑ Liberation of Dunkirk 1945: Memorial plaque for Czechoslovak soldiers. 2017