Post-WWII, the Allies make a preemptive strike against the Soviet Union, initiating World War III.
That doesn't sound good. Does that mean you have a good idea of how it's eventually going to end?
That said, I have to agree.
the way Anthrax is makes that less likely, there isn't any spread directly from one infected person to another, rather by way of spores, so the farther from Germany you get less likely to find a spore.
While without a doubt that would have been very bad, there's still worse. Let me take a look at a few very bad things which Germany evaded in OTL. A lot of them do not involve Germany winning, but performing better but losing anyways:
-> Germany surrendered early enough before the first atomic bomb was ready, and was spared of the fate of having an atomic bomb dropped on Germany. So, Germany performing the inch better to hold out a few months longer will assure the first atomic bomb getting dropped on Germany.
-> Granted, Germany had the Oder-Neisse line forced upon it by Stalin, but apart from that, Germany was spared of a collective land-grab by it's neighbours, such as the Bakker-Schutt-Plan.
-> The Morgenthau Plan was also not fully executed in OTL (well, it was attempted half-heartedly, but abandoned). The main reason for the failure of the plan was that it was utterly impractical in the face of the starting Cold War. This may be avoided by the Soviet Union being in a much worse shape after WWII, which again, would involve Germany performing the inch better in WWII, but ending up losing anyways. The Soviet Union achieved only a very pyrrhic victory, and is in no shape to exert a threat onto the West after the war. In such a scenario, the Morgenthau Plan might be feasible. Of course, there's the problem that the area of modern Germany could only sustain about 30 million people by subsistence agriculture, and Germany in 1945 had about 60 million people, which would have meant either mass starvation or half of the population being forcible removed to elsewhere effectively as slaves. Depending on how revanchist the Allies are (and depending on the factor that they have zero intent in proving history that they're the nicer victors because they treat the defeated better), this might actually happen, however.
-> Germany refrained from using chemical weapons for bombardment in OTL. If they had, this would have triggered Allied retaliation in kind, which would have *tremendously* increased the number of civilian casualties in Germany.
-> Lastly, there's the possibility of Germany never again achieving national sovereignity of any degree. Even in OTL, Germany only re-achieved full sovereignity in 1990, but imagine a scenario where not even the partial sovereignity of the German states in 1949 wasn't even achieved.
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure that anthrax would be WORSE than nukes, but it was available during WWII, where nukes weren't. Of course, it would be a comparable level of population kill to carpeting Germany with nukes, so it's not hardly 'better'. More like 'about the same - except doable with WWII tech.'I must agree with the posters pointing to the anthrax option.
Sadly, there are some things worse than nukes...![]()
Germany geting pulverized with atomic weaponry is arguably worse as bad as Hitler was...
In WW2 specifically or anytime onwards? If the latter, nuclear WW3.so guys using any POD from 1 September 1939 forward make the worst outcome for Germany.
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure that anthrax would be WORSE than nukes...
... but it was available during WWII, where nukes weren't.
More like 'about the same - except doable with WWII tech.'
Excellent answer.Hitler wins.
Excellent answer.
-Germany does better against SU. Takes Moscow, prolongs the war, and sabotages Lend Lease by intelligence discoveries about communist spies in USA in Moscow. As a result war lasts till 1946 and Soviets aren't in position to dictate Central Europe, only regaining their pre-war borders and some Polish gains.
This means no Cold War-at thus Allied plans for Germany go full throttle. There are no investments in German economy, industry by East or West and reparations are paid in full to all countries which didn’t' received them in OTL-Poland, Greece.
Since the war lasted till 1946 and Germany got more Intel, it managed to gain information on Manhattan project and fearful Hitler ordered more research into A-9/10 rockets of Von Braun. In 1946 in the closing months of the war, they actually managed to hit New York three or four times. As a result American public is furious and three German cities are bombed with A-bombs in return. Americans are also determined to punish Germany for the act, so more radical ideas are supported. German industry is stripped down and given to neighbouring countries, Sorb activists get their Sorb homeland and nobody cares about population transfers of Germans. Germany is divided and never unifies again, with South and North German areas being developed and managed quite differently by Allies and in different economic structures. When they eventually do regain independence too much time and changes have passed for them to become one state again.
1979... (big snip of utter insanity)
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His name is "Wyragen-TXRG4P", the name is his program...![]()
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