Hitler And The Reichstag Fire
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50:08The Reichstag Fire was used as a pretext to establish Adolf Hitler's dictatorship. The five accused men were judged at a show trial in which the Nazis and the Communists blamed each other.
50:33On the night of February 27, 1933, the German Parliament building burned down, and democracy went along with it. In just a few hours, then a few days, the fates of an entire country and of all of Europe were upended. Who set fire to the Reichstag? The Dutch Marinus Van der Lubbe alone? The communists with him? Or the Nazis?