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Timeflyer

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2. He's trying to start a Reichstag fire, keeps lighting matches, blue city by city.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Sun Aug 24, 2025, 08:18 AM

Aug 24

From the Holocaust Encyclopedia:

"On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship."

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