In the summer of 1932, the federal government, headed by Chancellor Franz von Papen dismissed the elected government of the state of Prussia and placed it under the direct control of the chancellor. Although in the fall, the Constitutional Court--the German equivalent of our Supreme Court--ruled in Prussia versus Reich that the chancellor had acted unconstitutionally, it nonetheless held that his dismissal of the Prussian government could stand. Thus, Prussia vs. Reich helped to grease the skids for Hitlers Gleichschaltung of the states, whose power it had weakened.
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