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Originally Posted by Frank0001
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Originally Posted by Elmer Kosterman
All else being equal, fishing boats are for Germany better sunk than a float for Germany because it decreases Britains ability to feed herself and lowers moral.
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I doubt the sinking of fishing boats would decrease the morale of England, all it would do is make them even more angry at us, and fight twice as hard.
Besides, it would certainly not starve the country, perhaps robbing a family of its income. |
Manipulating morale is tricky business. They say bombing Germany raised morale here. At any rate, it's hard keeping spirits up when you're hungry. I'm not saying sinking a fishing boat would have starved a country. But when a family looses its income, however many tear-jerk emotions that thought may provoke, they are going to have a hard time feeding themselves. It would have been an accumulation of such instances that would have starved England.