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But if they were good for the environment, took care of social stuff, and had an economy and military which kicked the crap out of Europe, why would you think that "wasn't possible"?

I would like to believe that totalitarian systems don't work at least in the long run. I'll wait till the jurry is in, but judging from how poorly communism worked, I'll stick with this hunch for now. Anytime you concentrate all power with a in a party (or any wierd group), that group will try cling to power and become decadent. These systems fail to work as meritocracies, failing to allow new people and ideas to chalenge preconcieved beliefs and the whims of powers that be.

Nazis still had captialism. There were still companies making big bucks off doing evil things. They had no respect for human dignity and no democracy. Hmmm, kind of like modern China (scary). I sometimes wonder if that system would have collapsed of its own faults like the USSR.

I would like to believe that totalitarian systems don't work at least in the long run

Since when does "what you would like to believe" have to do with historical events?

The NSDAP did not work, in the long run (although it is interesting that it is still banned in Germany and Austria).

In the short run, however, they supported what the supported and did what they did.

This is called reality.

Robert Proctor, writing in his book "Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis," wrote: "...the Nazis were health fanatics who banned cigarette smoking, promoted vegetarianism and organic gradening, engaged in abortion and euthanasia, frowned on all capitalist excess, and even promoted animal rights. They were environmentalists who locked up the land from development to promote paganism."