Okay, fair enough... I still see it as a wash; if the Germans pull enough out of the east in (say) the spring of 1943 to make a difference in the summer in France, they've kind of opened the door to the Soviets to make some pretty significant gains at low costs in the summer and fall of 1943 in the east.
Entirely true.
Of course! IOTL proved that well enough. The problem is Hitler refuses to believe that and no-one really is going to contradict him by this point.By 1943, the Germans just didn't have enough resources to defend everything; arguably, the same held true in 1942, of course.
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