Extracts from an NSDAP yearbook, on the unification of the nation, the centralization of power, and the withdrawal from the League of Nations

NATIONAL SOCIALIST YEAR BOOK, 1935 published with the co-operation of the Reichleitung of the N.S.D.A.P. by
Reichsleiter PHILIPP BOUHLER
Reichbusiness manager of the N. S. D. A. P.
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It was reserved for the national social revolution of 1933, for the first time in German history to introduce the construction of a unified German state. Adolf Hitler never left any doubt from the first days of his political activity that he considers the first mission of National Socialism to create a German Reich in which the will of the people can be directed into one direction, and in which the entire strength of the people can be put on the scales even toward the outside.
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The relationship between the Reich and the states has been put on an entirely new basis, never known in the history of the German people. It gives to the Reich cabinet unlimited power, it even makes it its duty, to build a completely unified leadership and administration of the Reich. From now on, there is only one national authority: The one of the Reich! Thus, the German Reich has become a unified state, and the entire administration in the states is only carried out by order or in the name of the Reich. The state borders are now only administrative, technical, they are boundaries but no longer boundaries of sovereignty!
In calm determination, the Reich cabinet realizes step by step, supported by the confidence of the entire German people, the great longing of the Nation. The creation of the national socialist German, unified state.
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Actually one cannot speak of an activity of the National socialists in the Reichstag since the new election of 12 Nov. 1933. The Fuehrer and people's Chancellor has coupled this last, overwhelming demonstration of popular will with a foreign-political measure, which, so to say, was long overdue, namely the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, which absolutely does not want to be anything else than a willing organ of the "victor nations," mainly France and her vassals, and who refuses, to honor the accepted disarmament obligation on the basis of absolute equality for Germany. To take away the possibility from
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the member nations of the league, interested in the continuation of existing conditions, to say, that Hitler's cabinet did not act with the agreement of the majority of the German people, the Reichpraesident dissolves the Reichstag and with the new election, the electorate was especially asked, whether it agreed to the foreign political position of the government or not. Some 42 million voters or 95% of the entirety made the government's position their own, and almost 40 millions or 90% of the electorate voted for the list of nominees of the N.S.D.A.P. 661 delegates, who all are members or guests of the national socialist faction, entered the Reichstag. However, there were no other lists of nominees than the one of the N.S.D.A.P.