Chapter XI: Part I: , page 411)

All the laws referred to above and hereafter were enacted specifically in the name of the Cabinet (_Reichsregierung_). A typical introductory paragraph reads:

“The Reich Cabinet (_die Reichsregierung_) has enacted the
following law which is hereby promulgated. * * *” [Law of 1
August 1934, 1934 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 747].
(_2003-PS_)

In furtherance of the Nazi plans to acquire totalitarian control of Germany (cf. Section 1-2 of Chapter VII), the Cabinet passed the following laws: Law of 26 May 1933, providing for the confiscation of Communist property (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 293) (_1396-PS_); Law of 14 July 1933 against the new establishment of parties (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 479); Law of 14 July 1933 providing for the confiscation of property of Social Democrats and others (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 479) (_1388-PS_); and Law of 1 December 1933 securing the unity of party and state (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 1016). (_1395-PS_)

In the course of consolidating Nazi control of Germany, (cf. Section 3 of Chapter VII) the following laws were enacted by the Cabinet: Decree of the Cabinet, 21 March 1933, creating special courts (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 136) (_2076-PS_); Law of 31 March 1933 for the integration of States into the Reich (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 153) (_2004-PS_); Law of 7 April 1933 for the reestablishment of the Professional Civil Service (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 175) (_1397-PS_); Law of 7 April 1933 for the integration of states into the Reich (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 173) (_2005-PS_); Law of 30 June 1933 eliminating non-Aryan civil servants or civil servants married to non-Aryans (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 433) (_1400-PS_); Law of 20 July 1933 providing for the discharge of Communist officials (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 518) (_1398-PS_); Law of 24 April 1934 creating the People’s Court (1934 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 341) (_2014-PS_); Law of 1 August 1934 uniting the office of President and Chancellor (1934 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 747) (_2003-PS_); Law of 30 January 1935, Reich Governors Law, further reducing the independence of the states (1935 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 65); Law of 30 January 1935 providing for the abolition of representatives or deliberative bodies in the municipalities (1935 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 49) (_2008-PS_); Law of 26 January 1937, the comprehensive civil service law (1937 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 39); and Law of 18 March 1938 providing for the submission of one list of candidates to the electorate for the entire Reich (1938 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 258). (_2355-PS_)

Nazi extermination of political internal resistance in Germany, through the purge of political opponents and through acts of terror, (cf.