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Today in History: February 27, the German Reichstag fire


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The tribunes of Berlin’s Reichstag, the German parliament, lie in ruins Feb. 28, 1933, one day after a fire destroyed the building. Germany’s rising Nazi party seized on the Reichstag fire as a reason to suspend civil rights and shut down opposition press and political parties. (AP Photo)

Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties.


Originally published at Associated Press

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