How can I automatically resize up images to fit into all of my registered image sizes

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What you are asking for is called “upscaling images”. WordPress does not do that by default (with reasons).
2 solutions:

  1. no physical upscaling: display your images via CSS (and not as IMG
    html tags), using background-size: cover;
  2. a plugin that upscale images. Here is one (untested).