Since then, historians have argued whether the Reichstag fire was a conspiracy caried out by Nazi stormtroopers to justify ...

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The Nazis used an arson attack on Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, in 1933 to help ... the third day of his state visit to Italy. A fire at a waste disposal centre caused smoke ...

The Reichstag is in flames ... during the night and in the days that followed and locked up in the first Nazi concentration camps. In March, the Chancellor obtained full powers.

Hitler claimed that he cried upon hearing this news. He was angry ... Despite the Nazis’ attempts to blame communists for the Reichstag fire, they still did not win a majority.

The court trial of the 1933 arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin by a Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe. The incident took place only four weeks ...