Hey Guys,
One of the modern cliché's of any World War Two TL is to have the Western allies come to a peace with Germany in 1940 after the Fall of France by PM Halifax. Now the Western peace treaty isn't the main point of this thread, though a couple of aspects of it is that France will stay under Philippe Pétain as the 'French State', and Britain will have to create a non-aggression pact with Hitler and thus secure Germany's future peace with a few of its main enemies (Britain, USA and France).
Now to the main point, let's say the Axis invades Yugoslavia and Greece as per OTL, now with no Western allies to worry about, could Hitler use gas against the Balkan nations? Let's ignore Hitlers own dislike for gas use and let's say he gives the go ahead. What would be the affects of its use in the Balkans? Let's say the wind isn't going to blow it off course to any of the Axis members nations and thus could keep Hungary, Italy and Germany protected. Could this lead to a much faster fall of Yugoslavia and Greece who (I doubt) would have stockpiles of gas themselves, and would thus collapse faster. Could we see a lot less partisan activity, or if we see the same amount or more could it be put down with the gas?
Secondly (ignoring the above statement) what would be the effects of the gas use in the Soviet Union? I don't know what kind of stockpiles the Soviets had, but I can guess the gas use by Germany alone in the SU would cause massive havoc in the Soviet lines.
Could you treat these as two separate scenarios, not scenarios in a single TL, but each being in different scenarios.
Thanks for helping guys
