Churchill/ Dunkirk/June 4th speech 1940

Question

Regarding the Dunkirk evacuation and Churchill's speech in Parliament that was so famously portrayed in the Movie Darkest Hour. Did Churchill lie in Parliament about the Belgian King's surrender to the Germans, In that the British were given no notice and that the Surrender of the Belgian army exposed the British flank and the British armies retreat to Dunkirk. Did King Leopold III and the Belgian armies surrender of May 28 1940 become the scapegoat that Churchill needed to deflect the blame on the British defeat on the Belgian King. 

 

Answer 1

see longreads.com/2017/08/07/whose-fault-was-dunkirk

It argues historians have been taken in by Allied propaganda, and that it was the Belgians who bore the brunt of Hitler's assaults, and it was the Belgians betrayed by Churchill and France.

It's an interesting argument. Churchill had to explain away Dunkirk and whether you call it "lying" "political rhetoric," "fact twisting" "fact bending" or typical war time "propaganda" he was in a poor position to confess it was Britain that betrayed Belgium and that it was the British military that was unprepared and not willing to take the risks that Belgium had taken. The article also argues Churchill betrayed France, as well as Belgium.