German fascism, much like Italian fascism, was a mass worker program (regardless of what one sees in documentaries that focus so much on other problems of fascism), meant to develop national interests. Hardly anyone in that form of society had any freedom to speak of.

Just liberal propaganda. One of worst aspects about German defeat and conversion to liberal democracy is it helps allow this liberal perception of the world go unchallenged. An authoritarian Germanic nation like Imperial Germany or Nazi Germany became the economic superpowers of Europe. They were extremely innovative and the most industrious nations of Europe. In regards to Imperal Germany they were producing the greatest artists and thinkers in Europe despite not having the same "freedom" as liberal countries supposedly had.

Once Germany was defeated there was no illiberal power to challenge the liberal world view. Every other part of the world had significantly lower living standards so the myth that any system outside liberal democracy is a backwards oppressive dystopia could go unchallenged.

Moreover, authoritarian regimes don't work in the long term. They're weak. Democracies are strong, if we want to consider what has more power, united we stand, and all that.

This is a historically illiterate comment. The entire human history is what we would call authoritarian government with only brief experiments with democracy in the West that usually last a couple hundred years.