What if right after Allies landed on Southern Italy at Calabria , Taranto and Salerno in September 1943 , instead of resisting and slowly retreating across Central Italy , German High Command ordered total withdrawal to Apennines and then Austrian Alps next year , leaving Rome , Florance till end of 1943 and quitting Northern Italy next year ? (That was actualy what Hitler intended initially in August-September 1943 after Allies landed in Sicily and Salerno but German Mediterranean Commander Field Marshall Kesselring changed his mind instead and convinced him to defend entire Central and Northern Italy)
What would be overall effect of that on strategy and outcome of war and overall geopolitical situation in post war ?
What would be overall effect of that on strategy and outcome of war and overall geopolitical situation in post war ?
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