In 1933, the newly-elected Nazi Party used a firebomb attack on the German parliament building, the Reichstag, as an excuse to push through what was called the Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung). This hastily crafted “emergency” law stripped German citizens of most of their civil liberties and authorized unprecedented punitive action against a host of political […]
Author Archives: Robert Hutchinson
Robert J. Hutchinson is the author, most recently, of What Really Happened: The Death of Hitler. https://amzn.to/39okvQL
