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The Reichstag on fire, Berlin, Germany, 27 February 1933. The Reichstag, which housed Germany's parliament, was the target of an arson attack. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch communist, was found by police inside the building, and the Nazis used this as evidence of a planned communist plot against the German government. Chancellor Adolf Hitler persuaded President Paul Hindenburg to enact emergency measures proscribing the activities of the German Communist Party and restricting civil liberties, a key step towards the Nazis eventual securing of power. Van der Lubbe was tried and executed, although four others accused of involvement in the fire were acquitted. Van der Lubbe was posthumously pardoned in 2008.
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AR9404552
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Image
Purpose
Public
Size
3122px × 3385px
Photo Credit
HIP / Art Resource, NY
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ABLAZE
Adolf
ADOLF HITLER
Architecture
ARSON
B&W
B/W
BERLIN
Berlin, Germany
Black & White
Black and white
building
BUILDING EXTERIOR
BUILDINGS
Burning
color
concept
country
Crime
Destruction
Diet, Imperial (Reichstag)
Exterior
Facade
Fire
German
Germany
Government
Historica Graphica Collection
HITLER
HITLER, ADOLF
Law
LOCATION
Lubbe
Marinus van der
MARINUS VAN DER LUBBE
Monochrome
OUTSIDE
Parliament
Photograph
Politics
Reichstag
TGN
WEIMAR REPUBLIC
Weimar Republic, Germany (1919-1933)