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Nazis got to all the points they wanted so lightning-fast that nothing happening now can rival it.
That's one of the reasons for the cultural shock about Nazis - everybody expected such processes to happen very slowly, in small flashes, as they do now. Thus them to be voted out or pressed out as a reaction, or at least for most potential victims to flee Germany, gradual pressure, compromise, all that.
Instead they came to power, almost momentarily changed the internal balance of power (of armed forces, their own paramilitary organizations, veteran organizations and such), anschlussed Austria, "solved unemployment" (organized massive programs of building autobahns and such, not very economically viable, but a symbol and a working mechanism), attracted investments (various scams on enormous scale, but the funds were attracted and it wasn't all scams), scaled the military back to something realistic, performed successful rearmament programs ... And built concentration camps. They started with something like Guantanamo almost immediately after coming to power, then didn't lose any time to learn.
See, they had an apparatus, even a social layer of very well educated people, but with indoctrination of service and obedience, and the legacy of German science and industry and patriotism too. They broke that, but not before successfully using it for a lot of things.
That's the problem with building good systems, they prevent idiots from learning who they are earlier. It's the same with Sun and DEC and other legacy in tech. Everybody still uses their paradigms and products descended from theirs. Vision, architecture, aesthetic (only hidden somewhere deep). So everybody big has now IMHO wrong ideas about how to solve problems, but since everybody also uses solutions made by those who had right ideas 30-15 years ago, they don't get the feedback. Today's tech is a pile of crap reinforced with yesteryear grass, but it doesn't fall apart in your hands because for the main problems you use solutions from a more civilized age.
While this was informative, I don't quite understand the progressive change from concentration camps in nazi Germany to a fanatic escalating hate for.. Uh.. x86 architecture?
Sounds like a really, really wild ride to be on.
It's a more general thought. Our actions do not have immediate visible consequences. Thus we can break everything and think we are winning.
Also on the subject of Nazis it does possess some value, they loved analogies between relevant modern techologies of their time and sociopolitical events. Where the word "anschluss" comes from, by the way. It literally translates like "connecting", as with electricity. Well, electricity wasn't new, but radio was, Nazis used radio a lot and referred to use of radio to show how modern and revolutionary they are.
Important because it applies to leftists often, if you say "leftists made Trump" or "leftists made MAGA" or "leftists broke American democracy" or something like that, it'll sound clearly wrong, but it won't be. USSR was a clear case of using what others made and thinking that it's their own achievement by its administrators, most of its history, while first they were using the tremendous results of Stolypin reforms and then NEP (Lenin was a bit smarter than his buddies), and then selling fossil resources to support visibility of a working economy, but that's kinda off topic.
I'm not talking about x86 architecture, I'm talking about everyone using Java and Sun idea of the web, just slowly worsened and degenerate, first of all. Or Windows NT, it was fine in year 1999, but being stuck there for 20 years is just wrong.
So, back to our day and how it's useful, systems should have smaller latency for evolution to work well. Like those temples in Japan, which are constantly being rebuilt in all of their parts. You should be able to tear down a republic and build a new one in a couple of years.
Getting back to Nazis - if the system they captured had smaller latency, they wouldn't have managed to even annex Austria.