Reply #48: Silly me, I thought it was meant to be a thread about the evils of pragmatism.

[anigbrowl]

sorry, but even a casual reading of history will establish that Nazism had a strong ideological bent, based on:

the claimed genetic superiority of Aryan people
the claimed moral inferiority of Jewish people, and also those of other races
the claimed right of so-called superior people to abrogate land and resources to their own ends
the claimed spiritual impulse towards a monolithic and absolute leadership/social model
the idea of the state as the ultimate expression of genetic heritage

...and so on. 'The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich' by William Shrirer is generally regarded as the best non-academic guide to the theory and practice of Nazism and Hitler's attempts to develop it into a kind of religion.

Your basic thesis (that Nazism and pragmatism are equivalent) is total bunk. Hitler was not a technocrat.