Worst Nazis possible

Hmmm.

Non-ASB is pretty tricky. Making them make more logical decisions might make them more effective, but making them worse? I don't know.

I suppose you could have them go industrial on the 'Jewish question' earlier, more aggressively, eliminating ethnic groups more thoroughly.
 
as awful as it sounds, the germans could have been a lot more effecient killing civis in Russia

the einsatzgruppen for their first 18 months where generally only killing people with Kar 98 rifles and a couple of vans with modified exhaust... had they been industrialized their body could easily have been 5x or more
 
Non-ASB is pretty tricky. Making them make more logical decisions might make them more effective, but making them worse? I don't know.

I suppose you could have them go industrial on the 'Jewish question' earlier, more aggressively, eliminating ethnic groups more thoroughly.

If they start the Holocaust before WW2 they have way less Jews to kill, and once it gets out they'll probably get invaded. I suppose they could've started straight after conquering Poland though.
 
It's not inconceivable that they could have pursued a policy of decimation after the allied invasion of France - they kill one in ten French civilians every day until the Allies retreat, or such like? You'd need absolute nut jobs out in the field doing it, perhaps a larger SS, but it's not utterly impossible.
 
If they start the Holocaust before WW2 they have way less Jews to kill, and once it gets out they'll probably get invaded. I suppose they could've started straight after conquering Poland though.

I agree, it's a matter of timing. However, whether starting the final solution pre-war would be sufficient to actually start a war is a good question. Let's remember that the Russians certainly wouldn't care, and the French and British would at best not believe it, or at worst show indifference. Unlike upholding a guarantee to defend Poland, there was no commitment to protect any ethnic groups, Jewish or otherwise.

A 'worse' Nazi regime might simply omit the camps and go straight for liquidating those pesky unwanted non-Aryans...
 
The Germans could have been a whole lot rougher on civilian populations they tended to consider their own (like the Dutch) for starters, the German commander at Paris could have followed Hitler's instructions to level the city if it was in danger of capture, an earlier Holocaust could have been undertaken.

The problem is the earliest stages of it were inefficient as Blair touched on, I don't really see a way to avoid it though, this was a new process, and the industrialized mass murder only came about because people realized the earliest solutions were infeasible on a large scale, and it was giving Einsatzgruppen regiments serious problems with morale.

Getting the Germans to abandon Germanization as a policy could increase the body count rather significantly, the problem with that being that they'll lose the support of anyone inclined to take their side, which will be a war loser.

I think, at the end of the day, the best way to make the Nazis worse is give them half a chance to implement things like Generalplan Ost, Calbear covered in all its horror in his timeline.
 
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