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Dunkirk survivors’ terror didn’t end when they were rescued

  • Written by John Broich, Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University
imageA scene from 'Dunkirk,' a Warner Bros. Pictures release.Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

In late May 1940, Vic Viner was one of the 338,000 Allied troops on the beaches around the French port of Dunkirk hoping for rescue as the German Army neared and the Luftwaffe circled above.

At age 99, Viner met with Christopher Nolan, writer and director of a...

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