Thread: Italian campaign uses Hannibal's plan...not Montgomery's
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Old December 6th, 2007, 03:19 PM
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Default Re: Italian campaign uses Hannibal's plan...not Montgomery's
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Originally Posted by von Rundstedt View Post
Oh that is so easy, it opens up a third front, Germany must send in units that otherwise would be facing the Soviets, Italy had proven a worthless ally, Germany from 1941 had to continually bale out its ally. US and Britain knew that Germany's achillies heel was Italy.
And again, if France had been invaded it would have also made the Germans send men from the east to fight. But when in France the Allies have the possibility of conquering German industry both in France and Germany, something not available in Italy.


Back to the question why even bother with Italy?
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