Reichstag fire

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• 12/12/2021
  

  Are Historians Too Credulous of the Single Culprit Explanation of the Reichstag Fire?

  by Benjamin Carter Hett

  Did Marinus van der Lubbe act alone in setting the Reichstag Fire? Historians who accept that theory – including giants in the field like Richard J. Evans – should recognize conflicts of interest in the sources supporting it and dig in to newly available archives to make sure. 

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• SOURCE: Made
  7/16/2021
  

  A Hitler-Style Seizure of Power Was Never in Trump's Reach

  by Waitman Wade Beorn

  A historian of the German military under Nazism argues that Trump lacked the ability to recruit the military to his side the way that Hitler did, and the US faces greater danger from extremist paramilitaries or civil attempts to subvert democracy than from a military coup.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  2-14-17
  

  Beware a Trump Reichstag Fire

  by Robert S. McElvaine

  "Ever since the election, I have been concerned about and warning others of the possibility of Donald Trump using a terrorist attack in the United States the way Adolf Hitler used the burning of the Reichstag (parliament) building in Berlin in 1933 as a pretext to seize authoritarian power and destroy our Constitutional system."

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  What Really Caused the Reichstag Fire

  by Benjamin Carter Hett

  Historians have accepted the Nazi version of the story for years. But there's considerable evidence pointing to a Nazi conspiracy.

• SOURCE: Business Week
  2-27-13
  

  German politician: Reichstag fire should be investigated

  The vice president of Germany’s lower house of parliament, Petra Pau, 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 death for treason and arson in 1933 for setting fire to the parliament building four weeks after Adolf Hitler became chancellor. Historians still debate whether van der Lubbe acted alone or if the Nazis were involved in the crime.“The Reichstag fire is a stigma of German history,” Pau, a member of the Left Party that’s a successor to former East Germany’s ruling communists, said in a speech in Berlin on Feb. 26. “The Bundestag especially should have a particular interest in this and push for a clarification.”...