Nazi technical thought was not uniform throughout the Third Reich, but rather dependent on the very different visions of Gottfried Feder, Fritz Todt and Albert Speer. Feder and his circle proposed a 'volkisch technocracy' that implied a radical socio-economic transformation of Germany unacceptable to Hitler and German elites. Thereafter, Todt's 'technopolitical' approach embraced the holistic 'spiritual revolution' of the regime - man, machine and nature in aesthetic harmony - and developed administrative tools to propagate it among German engineers and the broader public. Speer, however, jettisoned the regime's commitment to a specific Nazi technical ideology in favor of the war effort. The 'reactionary modernist' element in Nazi ideology, personified by Todt, disappeared as a result of to the war. The role of technology in Nazi thought is best judged by pre-war Germany. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]