Law against the formation of new parties

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The law against the formation of new parties of July 14, 1933 ( RGBl. I, p. 479) banned all parties in the German Reich besides the NSDAP . It was decided by the Reich government and announced by Reich Chancellor Adolf Hitler , Reich Interior Minister Wilhelm Frick and Reich Justice Minister Franz Gürtner . The law came into force on July 16, 1933, and in Austria on March 15, 1938. It was repealed by the Control Council Act No. 1 concerning the repeal of Nazi law on September 20, 1945.

The law was thus the legal basis for the one-party state during the National Socialist era . It marked the end of parliamentary democracy in Germany.

The law consisted of only two paragraphs. The first determined that the NSDAP was the only political party. By the second were all activities, "maintain the organizational cohesion of a different political party or to form a new political party," with prison terms of up to three years imprisonment threatened by six months to three years. Numerous politicians from other parties have been sentenced to prison terms on the basis of the law. These judgments were overturned in 1998 by the National Socialist Repeal Act.

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