Germany actually went through the most difficult terrain in Belgium, the Ardennes. Plan A was to do a Schleiffen plan mach 2 and go thru the plains, but a pilot crashed in Belgium with the plans on him, was captured, and so they had to scrap that and come up with a Plan B.
Plan B was to send most of their tanks thru the Ardennes, which the Allies' commander (Ong's distant relative, apparently) thought was too rough of country for tanks and so didn't properly defend it. Once through the Ardennes, they punched thru the Frenchies' lines at Sedan, then headed for the coast and rolled up the Allied front. After that, Dunkirk, and after that, the Frenchies said "sacre bleu!" and decided they had no chance and gave up. They didn't head for the Alps and say "haha you German types, you cannot get us here!"
It's a silly argument anyways because obviously it's harder to attack by fighting up and down mountains than just cruising thru plains. But being a mountainous country doesn't make it impregnable. The US had plans drawn up for invading mainland Japan. But they anticipated 100k Allied casualties, so they said fuck that, let's just nuke 'em. And in Europe, Germany rolled through Norway, Yugoslavia, and Greece pretty easily, despite them all being mountainous.
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