It is the night of 27 February 1933. The German Reichstag is on fire. While the building does not burn to the ground, it is seriously damaged.
The German communist party will be blamed for this disaster.
Members of the German communist party will be arrested accused of planning and implementing this disaster.
Only one person, a foreigner - Marinus van der Lubbe - is found and arrested inside the building.
He is not Jewish. He is an anarchist or a communist from the Netherlands.
He is accused of starting the fire, even though it does not seem very likely. Questions are asked:
** How was he able to enter the building?
** How was one person able to carry the equipment which was needed to start a fire in several parts of the building?
** How was one person able to start a fire in several parts of a large building at the same time?
Marinus van der Lubbe was tried in a court of law. In December 1933, he was found guilty of arson. He was sentenced to death. He was executed in January 1934.
Hitler and the Nazi Party blamed the Jews for many crimes and for many problems, but they never blamed the Jews for this incident.
The attack on the Reichstag was used as an excuse to persecute the political opposition: communists, anarchists, socialists, and social democrats.
Hitler and the Nazi Party did not really need or want a German parliament with several political parties. They wanted a one-party system.
For Hitler and the Nazi Party, the attack on the Reichstag was an extremely welcome episode. A gift from heaven.
It was so fortunate for Hitler and the Nazi Party that many observers have speculated that Hitler or someone close to him may have been responsible for this episode.
Perhaps Marinus van der Lubbe was merely a useful scapegoat who could be blamed for this episode, as he eventually was.
No definitive proof has been offered for this theory, but the assumption that Hitler or someone close to him was responsible does not seem far-fetched.
This is why it cannot be excluded.
If some members of the Nazi Party set the building on fire, how did they manage to do this without being discovered?
The answer is they used a secret tunnel which connected the private residence of Hermann Goering with the Reichstag.
Using this tunnel, they carried the necessary equipment into the building and started the fire in different areas at the same time.
As soon as the fire had been started, they used the secret tunnel to exit the Reichstag and return to the residence of Hermann Goering.
They entered and left unseen.
Mission accomplished.
If this explanation is true, it means the attack on the Reichstag was a false flag operation. This term is used when you arrange an attack on your own side and then blame the enemy for attacking you.
Having blamed the enemy, you can respond and you can claim that you are not the aggressor; you are merely trying to defend yourself.
This method was used by Nazi Germany in September 1939, when German soldiers dressed in Polish uniforms attacked a German post on the German-Polish border.
Germany wanted an excuse to attack Poland. Since Polish forces did not attack, Hitler and the Nazi Party had to create a situation which looked like a Polish attack on Germany.
In a public speech, Hitler announced that Germany had been attacked by Poland. He pretended to be shocked and outraged.
He added that Germany was now responding to the Polish attack. He insisted that Germany was not an aggressor. Germany was merely trying to defend itself.
Today the so-called Polish attack on Nazi Germany in September 1939 is known as a classic example of a false flag operation.
REFERENCE
The fire of the Reichstag in February 1933 is the subject of an excellent documentary film which was shown on French and German television (arte tv) in 2023.
The French title:
L’incendie du Reichstag:
Quand la démocratie brûle
The German title:
Als der Reichstag brannte
Here is some basic information about this film:
** Writer and director = Mickaël Gamrasni
** Run time = 90 minutes
The German version of this film is available on YouTube. It has German soundtrack and English subtitles.
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The German parliament
Der Reichstag
Construction begins in 1884
Construction is completed in 1894
This photo shows the building
as it looked around 1900
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Der Reichstag
The building was renovated
after the end of the Cold War and
the unification of the two German states
in 1990
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