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... Carr says, "giving Hitler the perfect opportunity to attack them in the future". The Enabling Law passed by Hitler on 23rd March 1933 meant that Hitler could ignore the constitution and had the power to make laws for four years. Soon after Hitler also ended all self-government by states and also broke all the opposition of the Marxists by replacing the Trades Unions with the German Labour Front. In July 1933, Hitler passed a law stating that the NSDAP were the only party allowed in Germany. Finally the Night of Long Knives on 30th June 1934 ended almost all opposition to Hitler when SS men, as Peukert says, "swooped on everyone considered to be a threat and shot them after one minute trials". The main victims being Rohm, Gregor Strasser and von Schleicher and the numbers dead were probably in excess of seven hundred. As Joll points out, "With Hindenburg's death (Aug 1st ...