Nazis and Cloning

One of the most disturbing and dystopian scenarios of AH is a lasting Nazi empire spanning all of Europe from the Channel to the Ural. Let's just say that happens and from 1950 on they control the most of the continent.
How would the Nazis react to the Cloning technology? Would it be "unnatural" and "ungerman" or would it become a way of the Blut-und-Boden-movement to get settlers for eastern Europe?
 

mowque

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The Nazis will never be able to keep a government together long enough to get the point of working out cloning.
 
One of the most disturbing and dystopian scenarios of AH is a lasting Nazi empire spanning all of Europe from the Channel to the Ural. Let's just say that happens and from 1950 on they control the most of the continent.
How would the Nazis react to the Cloning technology? Would it be "unnatural" and "ungerman" or would it become a way of the Blut-und-Boden-movement to get settlers for eastern Europe?

I would think they would love it.

They could pick out the most "Aryan" of the "Aryans" and mass produce them. Germans who were quite pure enough could volunteer or be pressured/forced to be impregnated with "purer" children, thus slowly climbing the social ladder over generations.
 
Thing is, cloning is hard. A surviving Nazi government may give up on it as a waste of resources -- especially if they try to apply it to humans immediately.
 
Thing is, cloning is hard. A surviving Nazi government may give up on it as a waste of resources -- especially if they try to apply it to humans immediately.

The Nazis loved BS science. I could see them happy to talk about how mass cloning the master race was just 15 years away, for decades.

Writing books on the subject, putting the subject into movies, talking about secret research, blah, blah, blah.

And covering up any horrible failures.

And if you just want more blue eyed, blond, tall people, that's not that hard.
 
There are actually some reasonable foundation to work upon:

From 1919 Spemann was Professor of Zoology at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau, where he continued his line of enquiry until in 1937 he was relieved of his post to be replaced by one of his first students, Otto Mangold. In 1928 he was the first to perform somatic cell nuclear transfer using amphibian embryos – one of the first moves towards cloning. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1935. His theory of embryonic induction by organisers is described in his book Embryonic Development and Induction (1938).

I could see some serious and successful research (provided the will to lose a few thousand people and embryo in the process) happen in a realistic Nazi "win" timeline like Kalter Krieg.
 
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Thing is, cloning is hard. A surviving Nazi government may give up on it as a waste of resources -- especially if they try to apply it to humans immediately.
Difficult and requiring way more resources than makes any sense? Sounds perfect! Let's have these clones driving Maus II's!
 
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