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If the Mongols felt that it was deserved, they would happily massacre a six-figure number of people after sacking a city (700,000 in Merv, which was the biggest single Mongol massacre). The high-end estimates of the total death toll of the Mongol conquests (military deaths, massacres, and war-related famines) are about half the population of the conquered territory, which is notably worse than Hitler. The macro-demographic impacts of the Mongol conquests can be detected in Arctic ice cores. Once you remember that the Holocaust was mostly the killing of conquered people (the German Jews were encouraged to emigrate, and the majority who did survived), I think you can see the industrialisation of it as the application of modern technology to the old problem of carrying out a wartime massacre.
I think Genghis Khan would have considered the Holocaust militarily stupid, but not ethically fucked up.
I deliberately put Alexander the Great in my post to make the point that at some point in the past "Conquer the World and kill everyone who resists" was considered OK if it was our guy doing it. But that had ceased to be the case after WW1, and arguably earlier than that. The idea that the 19th-century British Empire required a better moral justification than the sheer rapacity used to justify the 18th-century one seems to have been held pretty universally by the Victorians.
Germany had a serious problem with food supply during WW2, and they were ready to starve millions of Russians to death.. There were major issues implementing said policy, though still about 4 million died, with a million or two in the rest of Europe.
Holocaust would have been militarily stupid in the long term had Germany won the European war. Had Germany figured out some way of conquering Europe without having to kill millions of the its smartest subpopulation, they'd have had an edge in the subsequent cold war with the US.
German state ideology was thus that the ashkenazim couldn’t be integrated into the power structure.
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