53 Days: How Hitler Dismantled a Democracy by Timothy W. Ryback.“The chilling chronicle of how Adolf Hitler overturned a constitutional democracy in less than eight weeks.”“Hitler banned or neutered the print press and radio; purged the civil service and installed party loyalists; suspended civil liberties; compromised the courts; imposed Reich government control over the country’s seventeen federated states; slapped draconian tariffs on trading partners; co-opted, imprisoned, or drove political opponents into exile; assumed control over the central bank; and then compelled the Reichstag, the country’s legislative body, to pass an Enabling Act granting Hitler dictatorial power.”53 Days on Amazon