'On the go all day of course,' General Rommel wrote to his wife on May 24. 'But by my estimate the war will be won in a fortnight.' Hitler, visiting von Rundstedt's headquarters that day, predicted that che war would be over in six weeks. […] Hitler and Rundstedt then discussed the fate of the British troops trapped on the Channel coast. The two men were agreed that air attack could be used against the besieged perimeter. But Rundstedt went on to propose that his tanks should halt once they reached the canal below Dunkirk, so that his armoured forces could be saved for operations against the French. Hitler agreed. […] For the time being, all attacks in the Dunkirk perimeter were to be 'discontinued'.
From: Martin Gilbert, The Second World War, A Complete History, Herry Holt and Company, Inc., New York, 1989, p. 73
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