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February 1933
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27
The Reichstag fire
On 27 February 1933 the Reichstag chamber burned. Dutchman Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested, and the Nazis declared it the signal for a Communist uprising.
28
The Reichstag Fire Decree
On 28 February 1933 Hindenburg signed a decree suspending civil rights. It allowed people to be locked up without trial and underpinned Nazi terror until 1945.
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