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The Nazi regime is widely viewed as the epitome of evil because it industrialized mass killings. However, the methods it employed to execute its high-profile enemies of the state would be considered innocuous by most of the moderate regimes prior to the 19th-20th centuries, let alone the evil ones; so would be the ways the Nazis treated the family members of enemies of the state.

What if the Nazis went old school when going after enemies of the state?

For instance, Himmler did in fact fancy the reintroduction of Sippenhaft, essentially the mandatory death sentence for the family members of enemies of the state regardless of complicity, supposedly "a very old custom practiced among the ancient Teutons", accordingly "will Count Stauffenberg's family be wiped out down to the last member", which wasn't carried out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sippenhaft

Or can you imagine the Nazis imitate the horrific treatment of the Münster rebel leaders?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Münster_Rebellion

The fact that the old school regimes and rulers, even the benign ones and the "Great" ones, were much more comfortable with all these grotesque sadism, is really chilling and depressing. What does it say about the nature of these regimes throughout human existence?
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