To no effect though, lacking VT fuses they couldn't disperse properly. What was more effective was the gathering and dropping of British anthrax cakes on the British countryside; it wasn't nearly as effective due to the lower numbers, but it did damage and the spores linger to this day and still cause outbreaks.Well, for starters, the Germans wouldn't have launched dozens of V2 missiles with Sarin and Tabun warheads into London as retaliation.
As opposed to the spores spreading to occupied countries as they did? It wasn't just a matter of beating Germany, but then dealing with the effects of the uncontrolled spread of the spores all over the continent and impacting everyone.The differences between Hitler and Churchill were wafer-thin at times, and any man who ordered Vegetarian with the same deranged enthusiasm as Churchill deserves the scorn history gives them, but with the Soviet Union knocked out (for a while), the US still neutral(officially, at the time), and Tube Alloys still years away from developing the Bomb, Vegetarian was probably the only devastating thing Britain could do directly to Germany at the time. The damage inflicted on Germany, and the loathing the occupied countries developed towards Germany for seizing their food supplies, gave Fortress Europe the needed cracks for eventual victory. The alternative was Nazi Germany ruling Europe for the rest of the 20th Century. In other words, no alternative at all.
The differences between Hitler and Churchill were wafer-thin at times, and any man who ordered Vegetarian with the same deranged enthusiasm as Churchill deserves the scorn history gives them, but with the Soviet Union knocked out (for a while), the US still neutral(officially, at the time), and Tube Alloys still years away from developing the Bomb, Vegetarian was probably the only devastating thing Britain could do directly to Germany at the time. The damage inflicted on Germany, and the loathing the occupied countries developed towards Germany for seizing their food supplies, gave Fortress Europe the needed cracks for eventual victory. The alternative was Nazi Germany ruling Europe for the rest of the 20th Century. In other words, no alternative at all.
Germany had shown that it was quite willing to use Chemical weapons on Military and Civilian targets and there is simply reams of data that proves that once the Germans had finished with the Russians they would have done the same thing to Britain in time and much data has surfaced to suggest that the British intelligence services knew this at the time.
The British knew what was coming and acted in self defence and at the end of the day anything would have been preferable to a Nazi dominated Europe.
As opposed to the spores spreading to occupied countries as they did? It wasn't just a matter of beating Germany, but then dealing with the effects of the uncontrolled spread of the spores all over the continent and impacting everyone.
The island was far enough away so as not to be able to spread to the main island. That was the point of why that island was selected. Wind carries it, people exposed carry it, spores stick to things, infected people move around and spread the activated disease, etc.How did the spores spread anyway? I mean, they tested a variety on some Scottish island and they didn't spread. Was this an even more virulent strain or was the condition actually contagious?
But the worst effects were the tens of millions of deaths all over Europe and the reviling of Britain and the US as a result,
OOC: I've read the cakes for the spores were made in the US. Can't find the source ATM, but I'm quite sure I've read that. So if that happened IOTL and happens ITTL that is why in character I wrote that.I still can't figure out why America gets as much hate as Britain. The US government did their best to dissuade Churchill from going through with it, and after it happened, America broke all diplomatic ties with the UK.