removing other oppositions

• | trade unions

  • May 1933
  • nazis broke into trade union offices and arrested union officials
  • hitler used his new powers to ban trade unions & made strikes illegal
• | political parties

  • may 1933, hitler attacked his main rivals; sent stormtroopers to offices of SPD & communist party, destroying newspapers & taking funds
  • July 1933, hitler made a decree to make all political parties illegal except NSDAP
• | local government

  • January 1934, he abolish regional parliaments & made it so that governers were appointed by him