What if the Battle of France went differently?

As part of Hitler's strategy to invade France in 1940, the German Army pretended that they were going to invade through Belgium, similar to 1914. General Maurice Gamlin fell for it and sent his best motorized divisions and the entire British Expeditionary Force to stop the advance

In reality, the Germans invaded France through the Ardennes, previously deemed by French military leaders to be impassable, and attacked the Allied forces from their undefended rear after the German victory at Sedan. The resulting battles weakened the French military significantly and led to the French surrender on 25th June 1940.

But what if General Gamlin was able to realize that the German invasion of Belgium was a decoy and decided, instead, to launch an attack on the German forces in the Ardennes?
 

Archibald

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Gamelin was a lost cause. Forum member Pdf27 has a very good TL, search for "A blunted sickle".

The bottom line is to scrap that idiotic "Dyle - Escault" manoeuver and keep the 7th army as reserve.

Even without it, Sedan was a close-run battle; the german bridgehead might never have existed in the first place.
 
If France manages to hold and draw out the war, memories of 1914-18 coupled with a German economy not suited to long wars sees Hitler deposed. A military dictatorship follows that remains closer to the Soviets rather than the West. Germany remains conservative and locked in a Prussian mindset.
 
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