After the adoption of the Enabling Act, the Reichstag met only in order to hear the speeches of Hitler and other leaders or formally approve some of their decisions (valid already); in particular, the Reichstag passed a law retroactively endorsing Hitler’s actions during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Even in its purely ceremonial role, the Third Reich's Reichstag convened only twenty times, the last being on April 26, 1942. On January 25, 1943, five days before the expiration of the last Reichstag's term of office, the summoning of a new body was postponed for another electoral term, until January 30, 1947, by a decree of the Führer.

All elections to the Reichstag since the November 1933 election were a vote on the sole list of the NSDAP. The list also included a few non-partisan candidates who were considered "guests" of the Nazi faction in the Reichstag. These elections were extraordinary, were presented as big propaganda events and were held simultaneously with plebiscites: with the elections of 1933, a plebiscite was held on leaving the League of Nations, with the elections of 1936 - on the remilitarization of the Rhine region, with the elections of 1938 - on the accession of Austria to Germany. In the November 1933 and 1936 elections, there was no “against” item in the ballot at all. In the 1938 elections, the circle in the ballot corresponding to the “against” vote was depicted much smaller than the one for, and blank ballots were equated with the votes for. On December 4, 1938, by-election of deputies was also held in the Sudetenland annexed to Germany. Hermann Goering remained chairman of the Reichstag.

The Enabling Act was extended for four years by a purely Nazi Reichstag in 1937. In 1939, the act was prematurely extended for another four years, and after the expiration of this period in 1943 it was renewed by decree, though without temporal limit in 1943. Although it states that it is valid only for the duration of the current Hitler government of 1933, it remained in force even after major changes of ministers. In any case, Hitler called the cabinet together only very rarely after the first months of 1933. The last cabinet meeting happened in 1937. Hitler preferred to govern via decrees and personal orders. He issued thousands of decrees that were based explicitly on the Reichstag Fire Decree. That decree itself was based on Article 48 of the constitution, which gave the president the power to take measures deemed necessary to protect public order.

Source: Peter Hubert, Uniformierter Reichstag. Die Geschichte der Pseudo-Volksvertretung 1933–1945.