Soviet use of BW at Stalingrad confirmed

In his book Biohazard, Ken Alibek says that he is convinced that the Soviets used tularemia against the German forces around Stalingrad and that it also affected Soviet troops and civilians although many consider it to have been a natural outbreak.


If a deliberate use of BW had been confirmed or even suspected by Germany, what would happen?
 
Very likely nothing. The Germans could hardly step up their war effort against the Soviets, they hardly needed excuses to be harsher on them, the bioweapons were manifestly not working very well, and it would not be a good propaganda approach to make a big deal of this.
 
Nothing, there were numerous incidents where it was proven to have happened already.

"Both Polish and Russian partisans used biological weapons in sabotage operations against the Germans. In December 1942, for example, the Gestapo discovered a germ warfare arsenal in a four-room Warsaw house used by the Polish underground. They reported to Himmler the discovery of 'three flasks of typhus bacilli, seventeen sealed rubber tubes presumably containing bacteria, and one fountain pen with instructions for use for spreading bacteria.' Twenty pounds of arsenic had also passed through the house. A few days later, Himmler showed Hitler a captured NKVD order instructing Russian partisans to use arsenic to poison German troops. The raid on the warsaw house apparently failed to prevent the Poles from continuing to use germ weapons. The Combined Chiefs of Staff learned from the Polish liaison officer in Washington, Colonel Mitkiewicz, that in the first four months of 1943, 426 German had been poisoned by the Polish underground; that seventy-seven 'poisoned parcels' had been sent to Germany; and that 'a few hundred' Nazis had been assassinated by means of 'typhoid fever microbes and typhoid fever lice.'"

A Higher Form of Killing by Robert Harris and Jeremy Paxman, page 91
 
I could see Hitler retaliating with poison gas perhaps. He did have enough screws loose up there..
 

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I could see Hitler retaliating with poison gas perhaps. He did have enough screws loose up there..

When the Allies were storming across Germany, they found alot of chemical shells, ready to go.

Hitler had been gassed, and remembered how bad it was, apparently. He was never in a big rush to use them, even at the end.

The odd thing is, the only leader to push for the use of gas was Churchill, who advocated using mustard gas do disable the V2 and V1 sites.
 
It could have minor implications down the road, on the superpower thinking about WMD. Soviet maybe thing bioweapons are useless and go for something else while the US spend lots of intelligence resources trying to find a Soviet program because they have used it. Or something.
 
Hitler did demand the use of gas on the allies. His scientists however were convinced the allies had lots more gas than they did and advised against initiating its use.
 
Hitler did demand the use of gas on the allies. His scientists however were convinced the allies had lots more gas than they did and advised against initiating its use.

I always looked at that as false demands. It's mentioned and apparent that Hitler was very against using gas. Like mentioned above because of his own times around it. The argument that the allies might have 'had a lot more of it' was not the reason it was not used ... The allies had a lot more of everything. And during the last weeks of the war it wouldn't have mattered anyway yet still they were not released to do so. Odd that a fool who felt that Germany deserved to be ground to dust with him would still avoid it's use. Sigh ... Yet is Germany's curse of horrid leadership post Bismarck.
 
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