1933. Arson of the Reichstag

80 years ago, on February 27, 1933, the Reichstag building burned down in Berlin. The communists were accused of arson, who seemed to prepare an anti -Nazi uprising, a signal to which the Reichstag fire was to serve.

At the crime scene, Marinus Van der Lyuba, a former member of the Communist Party of Holland, who later joined the extremist communist groups that did not subordinate to the Comintern and advocated “direct actions”.

Attempts to blame for the arson of the prominent figure of Comintern Georgy Dimitrov and his associates failed. The court in Leipzig justified them.

The Fire of the Reichstag was used by the Nazis for repressions against the Communists and Social Democrats and the ban on the activities of all parties, except for the National Socialist, and all the trade unions were forcedly united into the labor front.

Most likely, Van der Lyuba, executed on January 10, 1934, was a single terrorist. The version that the Nazis, including the chairman of the Reichstag, German Goering, did not find confirmation were involved in the arson.