The Germans cleaned up, hardworking as ever.

As in need of new equipment as Germans were, they practically pressed anything intact into service. The British left behind eight divisions' worth of equipment in Dunkirk, including nearly 900 field guns, about as many AT guns, 300 heavy artillery pieces, 700 tanks, 500 anti-aircraft guns, 11.000 machine guns, 20.000 motorcycles and Bren carriers, and a whooping 45.000 trucks and lorries.

The amount of mileage Germans got from Dunkirk equipment is nothing short of extraordinary. Due to the finiteness of ammunition, artillery mainly went to coastal defense and other fixed duties, as well as reserve and rear line units. The 2-pounder AT gun became the 40mm PaK 192(e). The 25-pounder became the 114mm leFH 361(e). Several of the BL 60-pounders went to coastal batteries. The 94mm FlaK M 39(e), the designation for the 3.7'' heavy AA gun, was so liked that the Germans started producing ammo for it. Thousands of Bren guns were modified to fire the 8x57 and used by occupation forces, designated LeMG 138(e).

The vehicles were used even more. SdKfz 731(e), aka the Bren carriers, were used to an immense degree. Germans put anything from MG 34's to light AT cannons on them. Cruiser tanks were converted to flamethrower vehicles and issued to the 18th Panzer Division in Soviet Union. Tens of thousands of Bedford trucks, already similar to the German Opels, were used to motorize the Wehrmacht.

Then there is Major Alfred Becker, Wehrmacht's tank chopper par excellence, who made something out of any Allied vehicle available. Vickers Mk VI tanks became self propelled guns armed with the 105mm leFH 16, along with munition carrier and command version: Becker's 227th Infantry Division whose artillery was armed by these had the only self-propelled artillery unit in Barbarossa. French Lorraine 37L's were made into tank destroyers(Marder I) or self-propelled artillery pieces armed with 105 and 150 milimeter guns. Hotchkiss tanks were turned into tank destroyers, self propelled artillery, or even were armed with the Wurfrahmen rocket artillery. Baukommando Becker, formed in 1942 and headed by Major Becker and staffed by many of his Krefeld comrades from his old artillery battery, was literally forming combat-worthy converted vehicles from even battle wrecks left over from two years ago left exposed to the elements, using the Hotchkiss plants near Paris. More than two thousand battle-worthy vehicles were created by Becker in France using nothing but Allied scrap and armor plates from Alkett.