February 2
Statute issued by Gestapo in Prussia: Edicts and affairs of the Gestapo are not subject to review of the administrative courts. Realistically this leads, among other things, to an extension of custody.
March 3
Edict issued pertaining to more severe conditions for confinement of repeat offenders.
June 5
The concentration camp Esterwegen is closed and beginning in 1937 is converted into a punishment prison under the Justice department. The prisoners are ordered to build the concentration camp Sachsenhausen.
August
Construction of the concentration camp Sachsenhausen near Oranienburg is completed.
November 5
The concentration camp Columbia-Haus is dissolved.
December 17
General edict by the Gestapo: Use of protective custody should only be made in urgent cases.
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