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Two months after Overlord, the Allies landed ~200k soldiers in southern France that could perhaps have found better use elsewhere. Churchill as always wanted to attack the Balkans instead. Alternatively, it might have been possible for these forces to attack the Netherlands in an amphibious Market Garden to help speed the advance into Germany. Was the German presence in south France enough to warrant its own invasion, or was this a way of politically appeasing the French?
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