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Do you mean the ideology in a vacuum, or the actual Third Reich? Only going to address the actual history here
>It wasn't economically sustainable
Basically everything they achieved was done by draining the national coffers at a breakneck pace, and taking out a bunch of loans that they had no intention of paying back on top of that. A large part of why they got into WW2 when they did and overextended so badly is that they needed to conquer the people they owed money to before they could do anything about getting it back. Had they not gone to war, Germany would've fallen into an even worse depression by '41 or so.
>Extreme levels of corruption
The government was riddled with people working at odds with one another and playing underhanded politics to suit their own agendas. Corporations also had way too much influence, especially when it came to military spending, and the government ended up wasting huge amounts of time and money on projects that went nowhere because they were basically just handouts, or got canceled because some Luftwaffe minister got promoted and canceled a contract in favor of giving it to a company he was associated with, or whatever.
>Culture of lying to one's superiors
Present in all authoritarian/totalitarian states, the Soviets and Chinese are famous for the same thing. People at the top had no idea what was really going on because every step along the chain of command was bullshiting the people above them. Obviously came to a head late in the war when the high command believed whole armies were still available when in reality they'd been decimated and so on.
>Excessive ambition
If they'd stopped at Poland they'd probably still have it today. They might even have been able to keep France as well. They could've had a Cold War with the Soviets and decades to prepare for an eventual conflict instead of invading when they did.

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Give me a reasonable critique of National Socialism, without "MUH HOLOCAUST, MUH WHITE SUPREMACY, MUH GENOCIDE"