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We all know the father of modern Panzer Blizkreig warfare was Gen. Manstein but even as late as March 1940 there was major disagreement in Nazi HQ about the battle plans for France. The top generals wanted a replay of WWI with an approach into Belgium and invasion on a broad front. The Allies could easily anticipate such a move and shifted practically all their forces to meet them there. That is when Manstein lay the trap of conceiling his main forces in the Ardennes forests to strike at the undefended Allies rear. Now what if Manstein hadn't been so adamant that this was the correct path? or if Hitler had overruled him and sided with his Superiors? How would the war have developed? Could the Allies have held off the Nazis in a replay of WW1 trench lines, this time on the Muese and Rhine instead of the Somme and Marne? and if a protracted stalemate had occured would Stalin have taken the opportunity to launch an offensive to destroy Fascism once and for all?