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The idea of a German victory over France in the early days of the Second World War keeps popping up in alternate history literature, following the publication of the contra-factual novel Miracle at Dunkirk. Historians have always seen it as a faint possibility, but the size and mobility of the French Army's divisions blindeés prevented the Wehrmacht from exploiting any temporary breakthroughs. So how could the Germans have beaten France in the first summer of the War?
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