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The Reichstag Fire Essay Research Paper The

The Reichstag Fire Essay, Research Paper


The Reichstag Fire ??????????? One of Hitler’s first


actions was to organise another election.?


He hoped the Nazis would win enough seats to form a government on their


own, rather than leading a "Coalition" with other parties.? Then, one week before polling day, a strange


thing happened? ??????????? February


27 1933; a very cold night in Berlin.? A


man walking past the Reichstag building was showered with glass.? When he looked inside he saw someone holding


a torch.? The man called the police. ??????????? The


same evening, Hitler was having dinner with another leading Nazi, called


Goebbels, when there was a message that the "Reichstag" was on


fire.? At first Goebbels did not believe


it but after more phone calls it was certain that it was on fire and it was due


to arson.?? Hitler said: ??????????? "This


is a signal from God.? If this turns out


to be the work of the communists, then there is nothing stopping us from


crushing out the murder pests with an iron fist.”??????????? The


very next day, Hindenburg signed an emergency decree, which took away the basic


rights of the German people.? Newspapers


could be censored and meetings were limited.?


Even private letters and phone calls could be checked.? This one Law was all Hitler needed to


cripple his opponents.? This Law stayed


in force until 1945. ??????????? Hitler


himself began a last minute tour of Germany saying that the communists were


planning a revolution.? Many people


believed him.? In the election, the


Nazis won 43.9% of the votes.? It was


enough to give Hitler the chance he wanted. ??????????? Yet


the F

ire itself remains a mystery.?


Inside the building, the police found a Dutchman, Marinus Van der Lubbe,


aged 24.? He was half naked, but in his


pockets were matches and fire lighters. ??????????? He


admitted to the police that he had been a Communist Party member, and after the


election, he was put on trial with four other Communists. ??????????? From


the start Van der Lubbe told the police one story and stuck to it.? He said he had acted alone.? He had burned the Reichstag as protests


against the Nazis. ??????????? The


Nazis told a different story.? They said


the fire was part of a huge Communist plot.?


It was a signal for a general reign of terror. ??????????? Others,


including the communists, gave yet another version.? They said it was all a Nazi plot so that Hitler had an excuse to


blame the Communists.? One story went


round that, although Van der Lubbe may have started one fire, the SA helped it


along by starting others. At his trial Van der Lubbe


acted strangely.? Mostly, he just stared


at the floor; sometimes, he slept; he said very little.? After eleven months, the other Four were found innocent.? Van der Lubbe had admitted his guilt all along: he was found


guilty.? Soon afterwards, he was


beheaded. ??????????? The


arguments still go on today.? There was


evidence at the trial that large amounts of petrol and chemicals had been used


to start the fire.? It began in at least


twenty different places at once and was so fierce that the firemen could do


nothing to stop it. ??????????? However,


there has never been any firm evidence to prove that either the Nazis or the


Communists were involved. ??????????? This


is a picture of Van der Lubbe on trial:

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