AHC: The most grim, inhumane WWII and/or Cold War analogous world stage (pre-1950)

Vorti

Banned
Think along the lines of Portugal-esque regimes in France and/or Britain, white nationalist dominionism in the U.S., a surviving centralized authoritarian Qing China, Stalin-style Marxist-Leninist states popping up and/or a USSR going Pol Pot mode, Strasserist Germany bringing the NazBol meme to life, South Africa wailing on black Africans even worse than OTL, Hindu extremist India persecuting Muslims, early Islamic extremism in the Middle East due to ironfisted policies of aforementioned colonial powers, radical Lehi Israel deporting Arabs, etc. (Those are all examples, I’m not saying any of those things have to be included).
 

Bomster

Banned
Twilight of the Red Tsar/A World of Laughter, A World of Tears/Gumbo/Rumsfeldia

Or if you want sum Nazis, then Anglo-American/Nazi War is right up your alley.

There ya go.
 

Vorti

Banned
Twilight of the Red Tsar/A World of Laughter, A World of Tears/Gumbo/Rumsfeldia

Or if you want sum Nazis, then Anglo-American/Nazi War is right up your alley.

There ya go.

Twilight of the Red Tsar is great, but IIRC doesn’t it focus on post-1953?
 

samcster94

Banned
Think along the lines of Portugal-esque regimes in France and/or Britain, white nationalist dominionism in the U.S., a surviving centralized authoritarian Qing China, Stalin-style Marxist-Leninist states popping up and/or a USSR going Pol Pot mode, Strasserist Germany bringing the NazBol meme to life, South Africa wailing on black Africans even worse than OTL, Hindu extremist India persecuting Muslims, early Islamic extremism in the Middle East due to ironfisted policies of aforementioned colonial powers, radical Lehi Israel deporting Arabs, etc. (Those are all examples, I’m not saying any of those things have to be included).
Fascist Russia?
 

xsampa

Banned
Everyone seems to forget the granddaddy of all dystopias[a] on this site, Decades of Darkness. The timeline centers around an alternate *US that adopted a toxic version of Manifest Destiny fused with slavery, after New England splits off from it during the War of 1812. Said *US gradually absorbs a large number of Mexicans, enslaving the mestizos as peons, and continues this way, absorbing all of Central America and South America piecemeal over the course of a century while ethnically cleansing the Caribbean of its Black population. After difficulties with a rebellion in *British Columbia in the 1900s, the *US decides to enslave some of the local white population as "blanks".

Germany experiences much better luck, the HRE managing to resurrect itself as a Greater Germany of sorts including the Low Countries, Czechia and Venice and defeating some of its enemies in the Confederation War. It goes on to weaken France in a sort of *Franco-Prussian war, and gain overseas colonies. In fact, most of Africa is partitioned between Britain and it, with scraps left for France, Greece and others. Only *Liberia in Namibia, populated by freed slaves and people fleeing the Caribbean genocide, along with Ethiopia are left free. Germany ultimately crushes France and England in the Great War of the 1930s, balkanizing them into puppets under military occupation. Afterwards, it gains even more colonies in French *Algeria.

Russia is able to avoid the terms resulting from the Crimean War that prevented it from absorbing *Romania. Despite losing Poland, Russia[c] manages to draw Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Persia, Afghanistan, Xinjiang, Mongolia, Manchuria, Tibet, Bulgaria, North China and Northern Korea[d] into either direct or indirect rule[e] through the weakening of the Qing when the Taiping successfully revolt, and the aforementioned Great War.

Speaking of China, it is divided into two when the Taiping manage to successfully revolt. The Qing become Russian clients, and are occasionally placed under occupation due to revolts. On the other hand, the Taiping gradually collapse into warlordism and are colonized by Nippon[f], Britain, Portugal and Germany, with the interior of South China left to go to hell its own way. This sad state of affairs only ends when Australia occupies S. China during the Great War and lets a free government be created.

By the 1950s, we have a slavocratic *US that stretches from pole to freezing pole, has ambitions of world domination and believes the superiority of the "American Race" over all others, a Germany that uses brute military force to secure half a continent and more, and an expansionist Russia that does the same. The only non-nasty power is the Restored Empire, a gaggle of ex-British ex-colonies that got together after the Fall of England. Bharat [North India] seethes with rage at everyone else, while Africa is mostly under the German and Portuguese boot

[a] Although there is significant disagreement by the author, who claims that Germany and Russia are better than OTL, being federalist democracies and having never experienced Nazism or Stalinism
The original location was even considered by the *US to be too harsh for slaves
[c/e] Russia adopts an odd form of democratic federalism in which vassals/autonomous provinces are basically dominions, although the line between vassals and provinces still has nominal significance
[d] The N. third was captured during a *Russo-Japanese War
[f] Japan's more "nationally correct" name ITTL
 
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The Nergal timeline from GURPS Infinite Worlds, where the Assyrian Empire is the world's strongest power and most nation's are dictatorships practicing human sacrifice and fighting constant border wars, is pretty dystopian.
 
Or alternatively, the US and UK have Communist revolutions in the 1930s that start out somewhat well-intentioned but quickly become totalitarian. Germany and Japan take advantage of the chaos and defeat the Soviet Union together, ruling Eurasia (except for British holdouts in the Middle East and India, and Chinese guerillas in the mountains). WWII is way longer, way bloodier, and is between Nazis/fascists and pseudo-Stalinists with no democracies, and even worse the Axis has a decent shot at world conquest.
 

redeclipse

Banned
Radioactive elements are discovered earlier in the 1830s and start being used for weapons by the Crimean War. After a few wars in Central Europe and the Balkans using atomic artillery bombardments, and likewise in the American Civil War, by the dawn of the 20th century, Europe and the US aren't looking too healthy...
 
You can do a lot with a little.

RSHA conduct an operational analysis of Poland.

1) The Madigascar plan becomes the "Madigascar" plan.
2) To ensure this the anti-Commissar Order is issued to Heer and RSHA units. RSHA mobilise sufficiently to enact a ghettoisation plan in the East.
3) 1941 is planned for "climactic and supply issues" to commence the "Madigascar action"
4) Einsatzgruppen A-D engage in ghettoisation with the assistance of Police Battalion and Heer; and the Romanians are kept under control due to discussions at the highest level.
5) This nets significantly more Soviet citizens and Soviet POWs
6) Actions for the preservation of the food supply of Aryans still disclose the need for methods of special treatment outside of public view which are less offensive to German dignity
7) With the liquidation of the majority of Soviet POWs by disease and starvation supplemented by clearing action shooting, the basis for anti-death camp uprisings is eliminated. More camps, higher throughput potential.
8) with the concentration of Soviet citizens into ghettos under Judenrat, actions are complete in one movement.

That's probably 1.5 millions directly with a greater capacity, might start camp processing west of stop-line Slavs in 1943.

Yours,
Sam R.

Bibliography
Raul Hilberg, The destruction
 
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