However, despite attacks from the Luftwaffe (the German Air Force), German infantry never closed in for a final attack.
In 1940, following the Nazi takeover of Norway, Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg, Germany invaded France. Despite the Maginot Line, a line of concrete fortifications built by France following the First World War, the German Army quickly swept through the country. By late May, Allied troops found themselves surrounded in Dunkirk. However, despite attacks from the Luftwaffe (the German Air Force), German infantry never closed in for a final attack.