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Right now I'm reading Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning, in which Timothy Snyder tracks Hitler's method: dismantling nation states as prelude to carrying out his deeper purposes:
Prepare by filling the media with chaotic propaganda, draining the blood from civic institutions, then gutting them, militarizing law enforcement, normalizing violent methods of policing, leaving individuals and groups increasingly with no protection and no recourse, for example — all of which set things up for what he really wanted to do.
It's a method, which makes me think that our common representations of Hitler are a bit very-bad-guy cartoonish, while his methods are specific and powerful and can pop up in recognizable ways any number of times and places.