AHC: Weakest possible Europe after WWII

With a POD after Sept 1, 1939 have Europe be as weak as possible at the end of the war. For these purposes, Europe includes the UK, Ireland and Iceland and doesn't include Turkey. A Russian speaking surviving state only counts as Europe if its territory has either half of its population or half of its industry in Europe.

Ideally, no power in Europe should be stronger than OTL Brazil or Franco's Spain in 1946.

I'm not sure Nukes can get us there, do we need widespread use of Biological Weapons?

Breaking the USSR would be somewhat easier (Moscow falls, things get ugly, but the Nazis end up being defeated with a dozen or so nuclear bombs), but I'm trying to wreck the UK as well...
 
Well lets say the North Africa campaign went better for hitler so he didn't attack Russia so soon, he moves his troops north and manages to land a force i Sweden, he wanted to invade Russia at some point and with more Oil in his tanks engines he would be able to make more progress, however the same thing OTL with his generals not being loyal to him and him taking over strategy while being a terrible strategist led to his demise. so he still falls but europe will be much more of a wreck.
 
What about just using chemical weapons in WWII ?
Germans use nerve gas and GB anthrax all very not nice and will do massive damage....

no power in Europe should be stronger than OTL Brazil or Franco's Spain in 1946.
Isnt very hard IMO OTL Brazil isn't really a very low bar considering what modern weapons would do just look at what WWII did do to some European city's by 45 in OTL, so the challenge is just to spread the damage to the rest ie GB + neutrals (Sweden + Switzerland + Ireland?)

A Russian speaking surviving state only counts as Europe if its territory has either half of its population or half of its industry in Europe.
Can this also apply to the British empire as well ?
 
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How about Speer fails to block the implementation of the Nero Order meaning that Germany's coal mines are flooded and the transport system is destroyed even more than IOTL? This might delay the FRG's post war recovery by several years.
 
Yeah, breaking out the gas will screw Europe over pretty well, maybe having the Manhatten project begin a little earlier so that nukes can be thrown into the mix as well. Scorched earth in Germany maybe.
 
No Marshall plan and instead an implementation of the Morgenthau plan in Germany would do much to hamper post war economic growth I suppose.
 
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