Western Allies accept Rundstedt offer to not resist the D Day Landings

Isn't Brest in this scenario full of Germans from Normandy who have marched 'west immediately' into the Brittany peninsular?:confused:
I suspect the OP means east or whatever direction takes one directly towards the Reich.

Though it's a good point - the degree of motorisation of the Allied forces means that without opposition they will rapidly overtake the retreating German forces. What happens then has the potential for a load of Grade 1 clusterfecks. Not to mention the Allies "treacherously" seizing the Siegfried line and then calmly disarming the Wehrmacht and SS forces as they arrive! Before proceeding on a nearly* unopposed march on Berlin.

* I'm assuming Hitler (or whoever is in charge) would transfer some loyal forces from the Eastern Front during this scenario.
 
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Though it's a good point - the degree of motorisation of the Allied forces means that without opposition they will rapidly overtake the retreating German forces. What happens then has the potential for a load of Grade 1 clusterfecks.

The withdrawal of the 1st Army & the remainder of Army Group G from SW France in august 1944 would be the closest comparison. Everything that could be loaded on railways was evacuated, the automotive transport was packed to the maximum, the horse drawn artillery & wagons trotted off east. Those remaining on foot, around 25,000, were pocketed by the intersection of the US 3rd & 7th Armies. One German captured in this group wrote later they were relieved the US Army showed up as the French underground was now in the open & increasingly aggressive.

Not to mention the Allies "treacherously" seizing the Siegfried line and then calmly disarming the Wehrmacht and SS forces as they arrive! Before proceeding on a nearly* unopposed march on Berlin.

A sort of large scale Op ECLIPSE

* I'm assuming Hitler (or whoever is in charge) would transfer some loyal forces from the Eastern Front during this scenario.

There would still be the armed manpower of the Home Army. Not much time to organize it, but considerable fillers for retreating depleted units.
 
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