What would be the worst-case WWII worldwide?

Chemical and Bio Weapons Galore. All around the world seeing the release of plagues and maybe even radioactive dusts/dirty bombs. Total blockade of Japan and left them Starve. Final Solutions for all your countries enemies.

Take your pick or blend them all.

I would not want to be in that world, but you can be sure that the level of population will be a lot less in OTL.
 

TinyTartar

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For humanity, it would be if Britain and the Soviets came to blows. A unified Germany and USSR could play hell around the world.

This would only prolong suffering, and the eventual Nazi/Soviet conflict would stretch on for years.
 

TFSmith121

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None of which were suggested by my question,

Canicattì massacre - US troops murdered of Italian civilians
Biscari massacre - US troops murdered 73 Italian and German POWs
Operation Teardrop - part of which involved the torture of U-546 POWs
Dachau liberation reprisals
Hufft's take no prisoners order
Numerous occassions of murdering POWs by US troops in the Pacific
none of which were suggested by my question, the response, or my response to CL.

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Canicattì massacre - US troops murdered of Italian civilians
Biscari massacre - US troops murdered 73 Italian and German POWs
Operation Teardrop - part of which involved the torture of U-546 POWs
Dachau liberation reprisals
Hufft's take no prisoners order
Numerous occassions of murdering POWs by US troops in the Pacific

That's new; interesting stuff.
 

TFSmith121

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Only if you go with Wikipedia and Stormfront as your sources

That's new; interesting stuff.

Only if one goes with Wilipedia and Stormfront as your sources...

Having said that, there will always be incidents in war; however brutal such crimes were, they were not matters of national policy in the US in 1941-45, and given the strategic situation in a global war of unparalleled scope and ferocity, where all the Axis powers engaged in wars of aggression and frequent violations of the laws of war, one can be realistic about the lessons of history.

Best,
 
indiscriminate bombing of civilians can be put under all the major powers. Every single one of them did so including Germany and Japan. They just didn't have the airpower to do so on as large a scale as the Allies.

If you are attacked and fight back is it still a war crime?
 
Only if one goes with Wilipedia and Stormfront as your sources...

Having said that, there will always be incidents in war; however brutal such crimes were, they were not matters of national policy in the US in 1941-45, and given the strategic situation in a global war of unparalleled scope and ferocity, where all the Axis powers engaged in wars of aggression and frequent violations of the laws of war, one can be realistic about the lessons of history.

Best,

Let's end this conversation; after all, it is not at all relevant to the question, which is 'how could WWII be worse?'.
 
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