WI Nakam Poisoning

The Nakam group had planned to poison German waterways in an attempt to kill millions of Germans post WWII. They were turned in by zionist who feared it would hinder the creation of a Jewish state, but, what if they had succeeded?
 
I wonder if that is even possible. The quantities of poison required would be huge, and unless you manage to introduce a slow-acting but highly lethal agent into the water supplies of several major cities at once, the death toll will not be that great. Things like Polonium or Plutonium come to mind, but I doubt they would have been available to Jewish terrorists in the late 40s. Plus, I don't think mixing heavy metals into running water is all that easy.

For all the effort, you're probably going to get a bigger effect putting arsenic into flour at some industrial mill.

If it worked - depends on when and where. An actual death toll in the m illions might convince many people around the world that Hitler had had a point, but a more plausible mass poisoning with deaths in the hundreds or even thousands would be a footnote in history. If it happened in 45 or early 46, it might not even be recognised. Stupid accident with rat poison, the deaths would just disappear into the mortality background noise.
 

Dialga

Banned
Also, poisoning the water supply of a modern nation would be counterproductive, thanks to modern water treatment techniques.
 
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