British built millions of Anthrax-cakes to wipe out Germans.

[wtfhappenedtohess]

I really don't know how this colossal detail has been swept under the rug of history.

Anthrax as a weapon is not new. In 1945 England planned to wipe out Germany with 5 million anthrax cattle cakes to be dropped in pastures from bombers.

The aim of "Operation Vegetarian" was to wipe out the German beef and dairy herds and then see the bacterium spread to the human population. With people then having no access to antibiotics, this would have caused many thousands -- perhaps even millions -- of German men, women and children to suffer awful deaths.


The anthrax cakes were tested on Gruinard Island, off Wester Ross in Scotland, which was finally cleared of contamination in 1990.

England's Operation Vegetarian was planned for the summer of 1944, but it was abandoned as the Allies' Normandy invasion progressed successfully. At the end of 1945, 5 million anthrax-infected cattle cakes were incinerated in one of Porton Down's furnaces in Southern England.

I think the scariest part of this plan was the fact that Britain actually built these stockpiles and were going to actually use them ... but the only thing that saved the Germans was the collapse of their military fronts.

This wasn't just some insane idea hatched out at a boardroom meeting, they built these weapons with the ultimate intent to actually kill millions of Germans.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dy ... -2001Oct21

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vegetarian

[PotPie]

Interesting and it vindicates and adds to the research conducted by David Irving. On YouTube you can find a series of videos discussing Churchill's War, and in particular it mentioned how he once while in a drunken rage demanded that Germany be destroyed with gas and anthrax bombs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI8yd11suaQ

[Mojo]

Seems to me there's much more evidence that points to the extermination of the Germans then it does jews during WW2.

[PotPie]

Seems to me there's much more evidence that points to the extermination of the Germans then it does jews during WW2.

LOL, yes... And it gets zero media exposure.

[KostasL]

This wasn't just some insane idea hatched out at a boardroom meeting, they built these weapons with the ultimate intent to actually kill millions of Germans.

In contrast to reality, people tend to fantasize Hitler producing and using weapons of mass destruction !!!

[gbrecht]

I had no idea about this, to think if the Germans had fared better in 1944 i might not have existed. Worst war criminals of ww2 are the heroes of ww2.

[Mojo]

Something else that was shocking too.

The anthrax cakes were tested on Gruinard Island, off Wester Ross in Scotland, which was finally cleared of contamination in 1990.

Contaminated for 45+ years? I can't imagine the devastation this would have caused had this plan been fully executed.

[Ilikerealhistory]

Something else that was shocking too.

The anthrax cakes were tested on Gruinard Island, off Wester Ross in Scotland, which was finally cleared of contamination in 1990.

Contaminated for 45+ years? I can't imagine the devastation this would have caused had this plan been fully executed.

Before WW-II, Germany didn't have potato bugs, and a few other insects. It was called biological warfare, and if the Allies do it, it is OK, but if the Allies claim (without proof) someone else did it to them, then the other guy is evil.

[Occam's Razor]

Ilikerealhistory wrote:

Before WW-II, Germany didn't have potato bugs, and a few other insects. It was called biological warfare, and if the Allies do it, it is OK, but if the Allies claim (without proof) someone else did it to them, then the other guy is evil.

As far as I remember the potato bug / Colorado beetle story is a hoax.

Try google, should be easy to find some references.

[Mortimer]

The only reason they were able to eventually decontaminate Gruinard Island is because of a campaign by Scottish people to force the UK government to clean the place up. They called themselves Dark Harvest Commando of the Scottish Citizen Army. It may sound a bit over the top to some but they achieved their objective and the island was declared safe in 1990 when it was then sold back to its original owners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Harvest_Commando