Everybody is arresting everybody, bypassing the prescribed official procedure, everybody threatens everybody with protective custody, everybody threatens everybody with Dachau […]. Down to the smallest gendarmerie station a veritable uncertainty about who is responsible for what has gripped the best and most reliable officials; this, quite simply, is bound to have devastating and state-eroding effects.

Text of the February 1933 Reichstag Fire Decree

Surely I cannot be counted among the pussy-footers, which is precisely why I have to point out that, if the revolution is to be transformed into an orderly relationship of state and people, the state apparatus must be kept entirely safe from all revolutionary interference by the street. Both in the practical and the personal regard it must absolutely be left to the responsibility of the state ministries alone on how the revolutionary ideas are transformed into action for the national community […]. Every last street sweeper nowadays feels responsible for things whose connections he had never understood at all.