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And wasn´t it the same man Frederick the Great that said "He who defends everything defends nothing?"
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Indeed he was...
That's why the Third Reich is so fascinating and funny... contradictions to everything!
And by the way, I forgot to mention this:
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Indeed Bagration was a huge loss but anyway, so was Falaise as Germans lost almost all their heavy weaponry and vehicles there and again crossing the Seine later on. As a potential collapse of the front I have started to see the Normandy situation after Falaise as difficult as the eastern front after Bagration , and von Rundstedt made a miracle making a front at all with the troops he gathered from everywhere possible. Germany was in total chaos on both fronts about at the same time.
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You're completely right, Kai. If you compare 'Bagration' with Normandy then Normandy doesn't look that awesome. But if you put on the table that nearly 1/3 of the Wehrmacht was there and 2/3 in the east you can see that 80% of that 1/3 in Normandy was destroyed as well as 80% of those 2/3 in Russia.
After those terrible annihilation battles —in proportion, of course— there remained almost nothing between the Allies and Germany.
After Falaise there were no German forces between Normandy and the German border and after 'Bagration' there were almost no German forces between the Vistula and Germany...
Fortunately for the Germans there is logistics to stop the enemy!