Originally Posted by
Asturias56
I'm no fan of Harris as a commander but what choice did they have? Call a Peace Conference??
The better idea would of course have been, by the UK, to sign a non-aggression pact with Hitler, even a separate peace, in 1940 once France and the Low Countries were overrun.
That way, nobody who lived in a place that was now ruled by the Third Reich could accuse any of the Brits of being warmongers. I am sure that the Dutch would have eventually adapted to their new reality, secure in knowing that they weren't associated with any warmongers as allies and liberators.
OK, that's enough sarcasm for one morning.