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Here's a fun AHC for you: Have the Manstein Plan succeed and yet prevent (continental) France from falling to the Nazis (in either 1940 or later).

Basically, I am curious about this considering that, in spite of the strength of France's army on paper, France's army was never able to recover from the Manstein Plan's encirclement and destruction of a large part of it. In contrast, the Soviet Union was able to survive in spite of numerous parts of its army being encircled and destroyed by the Nazis. True, the Soviet Union was much larger and much more populous than France was, but I am nevertheless curious as to whether--as well as how exactly--France could avoid falling to the Nazis during WWII in spite of having a large part of its army be encircled and destroyed.

Anyway, any thoughts on this?
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