Message #20738

[Caleb]

Nazis round up potential scapegoats.



On 27th February the Reichstag caught fire. The police found van der Lubbe on the premises. After being tortured by the Gestapo he confessed to starting the Reichstag Fire. However he denies that he was part of a Communist conspiracy. Marinus van der Lubbe was found guilty of the Reichstag Fire and was executed on 10th January, 1934.



Hitler became Dictator of Germany in March, 1933. Hitler was actually "elected" Chancellor in Jan. 1933, but it was the Reichstag fire that sealed the fate of freedom in Germany.