On the rise of authoritarianism: a regime skillful at emotionally destabilizing its people through endless dramas and outrages involving real or imagined enemies, and 'the gradual habituation of the people, little by little, to being governed by... http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2018/06/28/hitlers-rise-it-can-happen-here/ …
I've read Haffner's memoir, but not the other two books. What most fascinated me was how banal so much of the Nazi consolidation of power was.