The Allied advance in France was faster than expected, liberating all of France in just one month, and Vichy France surrendered to the Allies. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The reason why the Allies were able to win the victory was not only because they had the advantage of troops, but also because nearly half of the German mainland was occupied by the Soviet army, and the German army had to transfer troops back from France to defend, resulting in the emptiness of the French mainland. The 2 million Allied forces quickly occupied most of France without much resistance.

At the same time, after liberating northern Italy, the Soviet Red Army also sent 100,000 troops to advance to the French Blue Coast, liberating Nice, Cannes, Toulon, Marseille and other cities.

The garrison Vichy French army basically had no combat effectiveness at all, and the Soviet Red Army, which had superiority in troops, equipment, and individual combat quality, basically encountered little resistance along the way, and the southeastern region of France was dyed red all at once.

The same situation happened in Norway, in order to preserve the German mainland, Hitler not only withdrew the French garrison to Germany, but also transferred most of the troops stationed in Norway and Denmark, and the original Norwegian garrison of hundreds of thousands of troops was finally left in the tens of thousands, and Denmark also had a garrison on the western coast of Jutland to prevent the landing of the Allies.

On the island of Zealand, where the Danish capital Copenhagen is located, there were less than 10,000 troops left, whose main task was to maintain law and order and suppress local rebellions.

The People's Commissariat for State Security of the USSR promptly reported the situation to the Supreme High Command and the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, and Stalin was overjoyed when he learned of this, and ordered the Finnish Front, which had entered northern Norway, to speed up its march and draw up a plan for landing on the Danish island of Zealand and liberating the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

The strong advance of the Soviet army put great pressure on the Allied forces, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who had always been afraid of Soviet power, proposed to Eisenhower, the commander-in-chief of the Allied forces, to land in the Netherlands.

Churchill's plan this time was not much different from what he had proposed before, that is, after landing in the Netherlands, he planned to rapidly advance to the Ruhr area of Germany, the Hamburg and Bremen regions of Germany, and occupy industrial facilities in northwestern Germany, so as to cut off the lifeline of Germany's military industry.

Previously, US President Roosevelt and Free France leader Charles de Gaulle were worried that the Soviet army would enter France from southern Germany and northern Italy, assist the French Communist Party in gaining control of large areas of France, and even establish a French communist government, so they hurriedly launched the "Overlord Operation" that landed in Normandy, France, with lightning speed, and then quickly liberated most of France to prevent France from falling into the hands of communist forces.

But even so, the Soviet Red Army invaded France from Italy, took southeastern France with the French Communist Party, and even almost captured Saint-Etienne, the most important military industrial region in France.

Fortunately, the Allies moved fast enough that the Vichy French government, which controlled the area, had surrendered to the Allies before the Soviets reached Saint-Etienne.

Now that the Allies had liberated all of France and entered the Alsace-Lorraine region of Belgium and Germany, the American forces no longer had to worry about the threat posed by the Soviet Union and the Red forces they supported in France, and could land on the Dutch or the northwest coast of Germany.

In order to ensure a smooth landing, the Allies launched a fierce attack on the Germans in Belgium and the Alsace-Lorraine area, pinning down the German army in Belgium and Alsace-Lorraine, and preventing them from reaching the Dutch side.

As a result, when the Allies landed in the Netherlands, they encountered little resistance along the way, and with the help of local partisans (behind the Dutch partisans were the British), they "liberated" the whole of the Netherlands, and part of the Allied forces also entered the territory of Germany and began to march towards the industrial areas of Bremen and the Ruhr.

At this time, the fate of Germany's imminent demise was irreversible, and Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union were trying their best to seize as much territory as possible from Nazi Germany in order to get the most out of the war.

At present, the Soviet Red Army has obtained the elite industrial areas of southern Germany and northern Italy, controlled the Axis military industrial complex, including Mauser, Mercedes, BMW, Porsche, and killed the lifeblood of Axis tank production, aircraft engine production, and gun production.

However, Germany's military-industrial system did not collapse with the Soviet occupation of southern Germany, with Krupp in Essen still producing artillery for Nazi Germany, Rheinmetall in Düsseldorf still producing guns, Henschel in Kassel still producing tanks, and Focke-Wolf in Bremen still producing aircraft.

These areas were still some distance from the Soviet occupation zone, but the distance was already narrowing, and Stalin had even made up his mind to set up a group to deal with the industrial system in the Ruhr area.

However, if the Anglo-American forces landed in the Netherlands, the Anglo-American forces would be able to enter northwestern Germany from the Netherlands more quickly, and then seize the Ruhr industrial area and the industrial cities of Bremen, Hamburg, Cologne, etc., and then the remaining military industrial enterprises of Nazi Germany would fall into the hands of the Allies, and the Soviet Union would not be able to obtain a complete German industrial system.

In Manturov's eyes, Germany's civilian industry is more important to the value of the Soviet Union than the military industries such as Mauser and Krupp, because the Soviet Union's technology in the military industry is already in a leading position in the world, but the technology of the civilian industry has not been well developed.

Before the October Revolution, Russia was a country with a weak industrial base and backward industrial technology, and its technology in both military and civilian industries was in a second-rate position in the world.

After the establishment of the Soviet Union, the Soviet government vigorously developed the military industry in order to strengthen its military strength and protect the achievements of the revolution. From the 1920s, the military industry of the USSR began to flourish, and the production technologies of various products of the military industry were greatly improved.

By the late 1930s, the level of the Soviet military-industrial complex was already at the level of the world's first-class, and it successfully became a world-class military power.

However, the Soviet Union's technology in machine tool production, engine production, metallurgical technology, metal processing technology, and civilian goods production is still backward than Britain, the United States and Germany and other old industrial powers, not because the Soviet Union does not want to develop, but because the technological content in these aspects is too high, and the Soviet Union itself has no technical foundation in these aspects, which is the technological shortcoming of the Soviet Union.

Due to the shortcomings of the Soviet technology in fine machining, various industrial products of the Soviet Union appeared to be poorly manufactured and of low quality, even the parts used in Soviet tanks.

To solve these problems, the best and fastest way is to absorb other people's technology, and if you develop it yourself, it will not only cost a lot of money and time, but also the effect may not be ideal.

It just so happens that Germany is a world leader in technologies such as fine machining, machine tool production, engine production and metallurgical processes. When the Soviet Union obtained these technologies from Germany, it was able to make up for the shortcomings of the Soviet Union in these aspects and make the Soviet Union's industrial technology to a higher level.

Historically, the Soviet Union did not acquire much of the technology from Germany, as most of the German factories with the technology were located in the Allied-occupied areas of Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg, and northwestern Germany.

The Soviets now had acquired Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, but northwestern Germany remained in Nazi hands, and if the Allies landed from the Netherlands, they would most likely be one step ahead of the Soviets.