Chapter XII: Section 4: of Chapter VII), was facilitated and legalized by the

following Cabinet laws: Law of 14 July 1933 against the new establishment of parties (containing a penal clause) (1933 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 479) (_1388-PS_); Law of 3 July 1934 concerning measures for emergency defense of the State (legalizing the Roehm purge) (1934 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 529) (_2057-PS_); Law of 20 December 1934 on treacherous acts against state and party and for the protection of party uniforms (1934 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 1269) (_1393-PS_); Law of 24 April 1934 making the creation of new or continuance of existing parties an act of treason (1934 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 341) (_2014-PS_); Law of 28 June 1935 changing the Penal Code permitting punishment under analogous law (1935 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 839) (_1962-PS_); Law of 16 September 1939 permitting second prosecution of an acquitted person before a special court, the members of which were named by Hitler (1939 _Reichsgesetzblatt_, Part I, page 1841). (_2550-PS_)

The destruction of the free trade unions in Germany, (cf. Section 5 of