At that time, the Centre party was subject to increasing pressure in the wake of the process of Gleichschaltung and after all the other parties had dissolved ( or were banned like the SPD ), the Centre Party dissolved itself on 6 July.

* History of Germany: Treaty of Versailles, Spartacist uprising, Freikorps, Weimar Republic, National Socialist German Workers Party, Beer Hall Putsch, Silesian Uprisings, Polish Corridor, Enabling Act of 1933 ( Ermächtigungsgesetz ), Gleichschaltung, Lebensraum, Occupation of the Ruhr, Re-unification of the Saar, German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact, Reichstag fire, Remilitarization of the Rhineland, Night of the Long Knives, Nuremberg Laws, Anschluss, Munich Agreement, Kristallnacht, German occupation of Czechoslovakia, 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania, and the beginnings of Nazi Germany

During the Nazi dictatorship, along with other measures of gaining total control ( see Gleichschaltung ), the rail network was again placed under direct government control on 10 February 1937, through a newly enacted law re-organizing the Reichsbank and the DRG.

The legal measures taken by the Nazi government in February and March 1933, commonly known as Gleichschaltung (" coordination ") meant that the government could legislate contrary to the constitution.

This had been one goal of the German Christians for some time, as such a centralization would enhance the coordination of Church and State, as a part of the overall Nazi process of Gleichschaltung.

This was later codified and institutionalized during and after the Nazis ' rise to power in 1933, during the process of Gleichschaltung ( literally, " coordination " or " unification ") which streamlined the medical and mental hygiene ( mental health ) profession into a rigid hierarchy with National Socialist-sanctioned leadership at the top.

Stark in particular was also trying to get himself installed as the Führer of physics — not an entirely fanciful goal, given the Gleichschaltung ( literally, " coordination ") principle applied to other professional disciplines, such as medicine, under the Nazi regime, whereby a strict linear hierarchy was created along ideological lines.

* Gleichschaltung — " coordination ", coordination of everything into Nazi ideals.

Gleichschaltung (" coordination "), the process of exerting totalitarian control over Germany, begins.

This church reorganization had been a goal of the Deutsche Christen for some time, as such a centralization would enhance the coordination of Church and State, as a part of the overall Nazi process of Gleichschaltung.

The consolidation of these countries as mere provinces of the Third Reich, in the same manner in which Austria was reduced to the " Ostmark ", was to be carried out through a rapidly enforced process of Gleichschaltung.

In 1932, the Preußenschlag, or " Prussian coup ", was one of the major steps towards the end of the German inter-war democracy, which would later greatly facilitate the " Gleichschaltung " of Germany after Adolf Hitler's rise to power.

After the Nazi takeover of power in 1933 the Gleichschaltung transformed the university into a Nazi educational institution.

The seizure of power and the " Gleichschaltung " ( forcing into line ) by the Nazis in 1933 also took place in Speyer.

The massive attempts by the Nazis to integrate the Stahlhelm succeeded in 1934 in the course of the " voluntary " Gleichschaltung process: the organization was renamed Nationalsozialistischer Deutscher Frontkämpferbund ( League of National Socialist Frontline-Fighters ) while large parts were merged into the SA as Wehrstahlhelm, Reserve I and Reserve II contingents.

After the Nazis came to power in Germany, they reformed the administrative system by transforming the former German provinces and states into their Gau system in 1935 as a part of their Gleichschaltung policy.

After Hitler came to power in 1933, the policy of Gleichschaltung first deprived the Reichsrat of its powers and later formally abolished it altogether, turning Germany into a centralized state.

* Gleichschaltung – the restructuring of German society and government into streamlined, centralized hierarchies of power, with the intention of gaining total control and co-ordination of all aspects of society.

The Deutsche Christen were sympathetic to the Nazi regime's goal of " co-ordinating " ( see Gleichschaltung ) the individual Protestant churches into a single and uniform Reich church, consistent with the Volk ethos and the Führerprinzip.

Lübeck had been an independent member of the federation of states that formed the Reich before the Gleichschaltung began to bring them into line in 1933 – 34.

* 1933 – Gleichschaltung: The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.

Gleichschaltung, as a compound word, is better comprehended by those who speak other languages by listing its predecessory uses in German.

As with most of the laws passed in the process of Gleichschaltung, the Enabling Act is quite short, considering its consequences in the German Republic.

This is supposed to prevent a recurrence of events like those during the Nazi Gleichschaltung, when Hitler used formally legal constitutional law to de facto abolish the constitution.

The Machtergreifung was followed by the Gleichschaltung, the period around the year 1934, which is characterized by systematic elimination of non-Nazi organizations that could potentially influence people, such as trade unions and political parties.

This gradual process of amassing power and control, was called Gleichschaltung by the Nazis, but is now referred to as Salamitaktik ( salami tactics ).

* Karl Dietrich Bracher " Stages of Totalitarian " Integration " ( Gleichschaltung ): The Consolidation of National Socialist Rule in 1933 and 1934 " pages 109 – 28 from Republic To Reich The Making of the Nazi Revolution Ten Essays edited by Hajo Holborn, New York: Pantheon Books, 1972.

* 1933 – Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.

He was responsible for drafting many of the " Gleichschaltung " laws that consolidated the Nazi regime.

* Alliances with various parties played a role in the Nazi Machtergreifung and Gleichschaltung, the seizure and consolidation of total power by the National Socialist German Workers Party.

These Nazi activities were a part of the Gleichschaltung starting in 1933.

After the DNVP dissolved in the course of the Nazi Gleichschaltung process, von Meibom was disempowered and replaced by the Nazi Oberpräsident of neighbouring Brandenburg, Wilhelm Kube.

He was instrumental in founding the Nazi Reichsnährstand corporation as part of the Gleichschaltung process.

* Kameradschafts-und Gemeinschaftsstärkung – strengthening of comradeship and community ; Nazi party Gleichschaltung of social institutions.

* Leistungsgemeinschaft – performance community ; part of the Nazi Gleichschaltung of social institutions.

In his pamphlet State, Volk and Movement, Carl Schmitt praised the expulsion of Jews from political life without ever using the term " Jew " and using " non-Aryan " only rarely, by praising the homogeneity of the people and the Volksgemeinschaft ensuing ; merely Gleichschaltung was not sufficient, but Nazi principles must continue to make the German people pure.

After the Anschluß of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, all media had to undergo the Gleichschaltung, which meant losing all independence.

The German nudist movement gained prominence in the 1920s, but was suppressed during the Nazi Gleichschaltung after Adolf Hitler came to power.

The Gleichschaltung also included the formation of various organisations with compulsory membership for segments of the population, in particular the youth.

The word Gleichschaltung had two uses in German for physical, rather than political, meanings:

The difficulty for all such dissidents was how to reconcile loyalty to Germany with opposition to the Nazis, once the Nazis had subverted the state to such an extent that the two were almost inextricable ( Gleichschaltung ).

The Christiana Albertina was one of the first universities to obey the Gleichschaltung in 1933 and agreed to remove many professors and students from the school, for instance Ferdinand Tönnies or Felix Jacoby.