Centre Party dissolved

After the KPD and SPD were banned, the remaining parties increasingly fear that they will be similarly persecuted and shut out by the National Socialists. The initial result is a rapid drop in membership. These parties finally pre-empt being banned by dissolving themselves. The last significant party of the Weimar Republic, the Catholic Centre Party, terminates its political activities on 5 July 1933. With a „Law against the Formation of New Parties“ decreed nine days later the Nazis will assure the NSDAP’s sole rule and spell the end of democratic pluralism in Germany.

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