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Old December 16th, 2003, 02:42 PM
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Seems like Hitler didn't learn the lesson about mobile defense. I would have been very useful in 1942 onwards...

This makes a very interesting what-if. What if general Gamelin would have remained as an Army clerk and Weygand or someone as agressive as Foch or someone as capable as Pétain would have been put in charge since the beginning... That open southern German flank was a big temptation...
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