There was no strict 'evil' power in WWII IMHO, just bad people in the wrong places. Take, the Kriegsmarine for example, a reasonable proportion of the Kriegsmarine couldn't give a hoot about Hitler or the Nazi party, they just wanted to get out, do their jobs as military men, defending their nation from aggression, and get home alive....but not everyone was like this, there were the devout and fanatical Nazis, the SS troopers, those who would kill in the name of the fuhrer and kill again, not only because they loved their leader but because they loved killing. Such sadists are still around today, and they're usually drawn towards societies who need to use violence for their means, such as the early days of the Nazi party.
Each side had its own share of atrocities, only a couple of hours ago I was reading a book about the Battle of Britain and how Spitfire pilots would occasionally single out German parachutes and open fire on them...or wait until they landed on the ground and then strafe them. The Japanese commited countless atrocities, as did the Soviets and Nazis, you could also quite easily call Hiroshima and Nagasaki atrocities, but it was perhaps what is called a necessary evil...but where do we draw the line at necessary evils? What is defined as a necessary evil?
I think it's a little wrong to ask which is the most evil power in WWII, as each power had evil men, as much as they had good men.
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