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In his autobiography the Nazi Albert Speer explained that he was with Hitler when Hitler got the news that an Allied invasion fleet (for Operation Torch) was entering the Mediterranean Sea. According to Speer Hitler got upset thinking that the invasion was aimed at Vichy France, which was empty of German troops as per the Franco-German armistice of 1940.
Could the Allies have successfully invaded Vichy France in November 1942? Could the Germans have moved troops from the Eastern Front (even though they were about to be defeated at Stalingrad) to France before the Allies had driven the Germans out of France?
Or would Germany have tried to transfer the Afrika Korps across the Med to re-enforce their garrison in northern and eastern France? Would such a transfer have been halted by the U.S. and Royal Navies?