Word: brickmason
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...active part in the Reichstag fire. The nature of such participation has not been 'shown in the proceedings before this court." On this basis Prosecutor Werner asked the Court to sentence Comrade Torgler to death. He also asked death for the fifth and last prisoner, famed Dutch Brickmason Marinus Van der Lubbe who was brought up from his cell in a stupor at every session of his trial but one. On that one day Van der Lubbe had shouted: "I have been questioned for over eight months! . . . Nothing ever happens. I don't agree to that...
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