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· Political enemies were arrested and quickly put in constructed holding pens.
· Old army barracks and abandoned factories were used as prisons. Once inside, prisoners were subjected to military style drills and harsh discipline. They were often beaten and sometimes even tortured to death! This was a taste of what the concentration camps would be like.
· Hitler forced President Hindenburg to sign two decrees put before him. The first offered full pardons to all Nazis currently in prison. The second decree signed allowed for the arrest of anyone suspected of maliciously criticizing the government and the Nazi Party.
· Democracy was destroyed with the passing of the Enabling Act, which made Germany's politics one party. This act could only be passed if the other parties agreed to it as well as the Nazis. The SS and SA surrounded the venue at which the ballot was held. The act was approved.
· Trade unions were officially banned.
· Former Chancellor, Kurt von Schleicher was eliminated.
· The SA was destroyed by the SS. This destruction was called the 'Knight of the Long Knives'.
· Hitler tried to change the role of women to just being with family, not in a career. He introduced a policy called the 'Goering's Four Year Plan', which was the Nazis' economic program to prepare Germany for war and a lecture to the women on being a housewife.