Effect of the Enabling Act - Gleichschaltung
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- Effect of the Enabling Act - Gleich-schaltung
- Hitler was now in a position to bring German society into line with Nazi philosophy: Gleich-schaltung
- Trade Unions
- 2nd May 1933
- All trade unions were banned
- Nazis said that a national community had been created so unions were no longer required
- Trade unions were replaced with the German Labour Front (DAF)
- The DAF decided wages
- Workbooks were filled out to contain a worker's employment history and employment was near impossible without one
- Strikes were outlawed, and those who opposed were sent to concentration camps
- The first concentration camp was opened at Dachau, March 1933
- Political parties
- The KPD had been banned after the Reichstag Fire and its property seized
- On 10th May 1933 the Social Democratic Party had its headquarters, property and newspaper seized
- Remaining political parties disbanded June-July
- 14th July 1933 - Law Against the Formation of Parties
- In the November 1933 general election, the Nazis won almost 40 million votes (3 mil papers were spoilt)
- State Government (Länder)
- Hitler broke down the federal structure of Germany
- There were 18 Länder, each with its own Parliament
- During the Weimar period these Länder had sometimes caused problems as they refused to accept governmental decisions
- President Ebert had passed over 130 decrees to overrule Länder
- Hitler decided that the Länder should be run by Reich governors and their parliaments were abolished in Jan 1934
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