"this could also be why he held back the Panzers at Dunkirk the same year and allowed most of the B.E.F. to escape"

The documentary I mentioned before says that this theory is utter BS. The real reason is that certain generals deliberately disobeyed orders and out ran the original Blitzkreig (Mannstein!) plan, and Hitler was more interested in consolidating his own power by back stabbing and undermining competent generals (I worked in the public service!!!) than in the british troops. So he insisted that the tanks stop and he intimidated the generals into obeying him. No other generals were brave enough to defy Hitler later, so he became totally surrounded by yes men.

There are lots of other BS theories that do not take into account the serious (private) power plays and backstabbing in the Nazi party. The British used this with the 'Man that never was' and the 'turned super spy' who fed false information - and the fake FUSAG group, etc - my dad was stationed in Scotland with the fake Northern group. The Allies knew that all they had to do was fool Hitler and he was their best agent for defeating the German military - look at the stupidity at Stalingrad.

Not to be forgotten is that Hitler's own Chief of Military Staff carried a pistol in his pocket during the days of 1939/40, making a private fuss that he intended to shoot Hitler, but he never did. He also later fell out of favour with Hitler too.

We Aussies have a good name for people like Mr Baker - starts with "W" and rhymes with 'banker'...