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Here's a thought experiment. What if the country we now call Belgium had instead been partitioned in the 19th century with Holland getting Flanders and France getting Wallonia? Assuming that doesn't butterfly anything else, the French would build their Maginot line along the now extended border with Germany. So when Hitler invades, he would have to go through the Netherlands. Would this slow down the Wehrmacht and perhaps prevent the fall of France?
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