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Hitler's tactical advantage lay in his capacity to be more horrible than his opponents could imagine. The most horrible thing of all is that he well might have succeeded if not for his own megalomaniac propensity to overreach.

This is just stupid. This advantage lasted right up to the outbreak of war and ended right there. His "horribleness" during the war (the camps, massacres of civilians in occupied countries, the "master race" doctrine) was almost certainly a net detriment to his ability to win the war. (As the author states in a slightly form.)

How does one wage war more "horribly" than with nuclear weapons and "firestorm" attacks as were used on Dresden and Hanburg?

Horrifying Nazis? Pathetic amateurs.

Hitler's tactical advantage lay in his capacity to be more horrible than his opponents could imagine....
This is just stupid. This advantage lasted right up to the outbreak of war and ended right there.

How does one wage war more "horribly" than with nuclear weapons and "firestorm" attacks as were used on Dresden and Hanburg?

Agreed. The German initial tactical advantage lay in the fact that the Germans invented the AIR-LAND Battle doctrine while the French were busy burying themselves in the ground and leaving their left flank in the air.

Death camps merely siphoned resources from the German war effort.