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==Reasons for Market Garden==

By the Autumn of 1944, it was apparent to the Allied High Command that the Germans had managed to retrieve the situation and would offer stiff resistance to any future offensive. In August 1944, a British assault failed to take the deep water port of Antwerp and had allowed some 80,000 German troops from Scheldt Estuary. This became known as the ‘Great Mistake’ and was perhaps one of the biggest in the entire war <ref> Burgett, p. 37</ref>. The Allied high command was reluctant to attack the Germans from eastern France, as the Nazi government had constructed a massive line of defenses, consisting of fortresses, to protect their western border, this was known as the Siegfried Line. The British and the Americans had to go through the Low Countries to invade Germany and end the war.<ref> Ryan, Cornelius, ''[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0684803305/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0684803305&linkCode=as2&tag=dailyh0c-20&linkId=a59f073c4b3bf60e27b95e4efd51292c A Bridge Too Far]'' (Wordsworth Editions, London, 1999), p. 78</ref>