WI: The Germans find out about the French Army Mutinies in 1917

In 1917 after the total fuck up at Second Battle of the Aisne, the French Army broke into open Mutiny with about half of their Infantry divisions being out of the fight. By a stoke of luck the Germans never found out about this.

But what if on May 30 the Germans learn of the Mutinies and launch an attack at the open lines. What would happen? Could the Germans force France out of the war and end the war before America could land in the numbers needed to take the place of the French Army? Or where the Germans on the Western Front to spend to do anything about it?
 
In 1917 after the total fuck up at Second Battle of the Aisne, the French Army broke into open Mutiny with about half of their Infantry divisions being out of the fight. By a stoke of luck the Germans never found out about this.

But what if on May 30 the Germans learn of the Mutinies and launch an attack at the open lines. What would happen? Could the Germans force France out of the war and end the war before America could land in the numbers needed to take the place of the French Army? Or where the Germans on the Western Front to spend to do anything about it?

The mutiny's stop (temporarily), and the French hold...the mutiny was about refusing to go back over to the offensive until grievances where addressed, there was still a massive patriotic sense to hold the line and not allow the surrender of more national territory
 
The Germans knew about the mutinies. Perhaps not about the total scale, but they were well aware that several front-line regiments had mutinied. There always were prisoners made in trench raids and deserters coming over; so, the information was there.
However, for 1917, the German theme for the Western Front was: strictest defensive. There were absolutely no provisions for offensive actions. The idea was to stick it out, until the submarines had forced the Entente to sue for peace. Didn't work in the end; but even if the OHL had wanted, they couldn't have tried to exploit the French mutinies.
 
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