The Reichstagbrand (Reichstag fire) in the evening of 27 February 1933 has been famous for being one of the biggest miscalculations in history. In stead of the uprise against the nazi regime, which ...

Marinus van der Lubbe was born on 13th January 1911 in Leyden ... But the Nazis would have carried out their wholesale repression, sooner or later, with or without the Reichstag fire. On the day that ...

Dutch Communist Marinus van der Lubbe, having been found guilty of starting the Reichstag fire on this day in 1933, was guillotined and buried in an unmarked grave. Now, 90 years on, what is ...

So did Marinus van der Lubbe, the 75% vision-impaired Dutch left-wing radical communist arrested in the burning Reichstag set the fire on his own? Or were the culprits to be found among the Nazis?” ...

When prodded, he agreed. The story: On the evening of the fire Marinus van der Lubbe bought packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered ...

Lennings stated that he drove Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe to the Reichstag on the night of the fire. According to the testimony, when Lennings and his SA group brought van der Lubbe to ...

German prosecutors said they formally overturned the conviction of a Dutch communist who was executed after the Nazis accused him of setting fire to ... in 1933. Marinus van der Lubbe, a ...

called for a review into the 1933 fire that destroyed the Reichstag in Berlin which helped clear the way for the Nazi rise to power. A communist Dutchman, Marinus van der Lubbe, was sentenced to ...