I once thought about transforming the Weimar Republic into a "national technocracy" instead of the third reich. I never posted it because it fast became soft AH as I used many fictional persons. Furthermore it would have been not entirely technocratic, as technology and science only were tools to lead Germany to "greatness". Similiar to a modern PRC with expansionism and some social security. I think something like this is possible in the great depression with a popular party focusing on it. Democracy is crumbling, communism opposed by many and the nationalist alone aren´t strong enough to keep the power. IOTL the nazis were seen as their tool to get control and it didn´t work. Under the right circumstances it could be a populistic technocratic party. Without the racism and other silly ideas of the nazis and more interest in effeciency this could become an even more dangerous Germany.