LAW OF 1 DECEMBER 1933 CONCERNING SPECIAL NAZI PARTY AND STORM TROOPS’ (SA) JURISDICTION OVER MEMBERS OF THE NAZI PARTY, THE SA, AND THEIR SUBORDINATE ORGANIZATIONS[87]
Law for the Safeguarding of Unity of Party and State decreed on 1 December 1933
The Reich government has passed the following law, which herewith is promulgated.
Article 1
(1) Since the victory of the National Socialist revolution the National Socialist German Workers’ Party is the bearer of the German State ideology and merged with the State inseparably.
(2) It is a corporate body under public law. Its statutes are determined by the Fuehrer.
Article 2
In order to guarantee closest cooperation between Party and SA offices on the one hand and public authorities on the other hand, the deputy of the Fuehrer [Hess] and the chief of staff of the SA [Roehm] become members of the Reich government.
Article 3
(1) Because they are the leading and moving power of the National Socialist State, the members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party and of the SA (including their subordinated organizations) have an enhanced duty toward the Fuehrer, the Nation, and the State.