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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...
...robed judges of the German Supreme Court started violently and some half rose from their chairs. Without warning the Dutch Sphinx of the Reichstag Fire Trial, ox-dumb Marinus van der Lubbe who has sat as though drugged or stupefied for weeks on end, suddenly leaped to his feet, clear-eyed and bubbling with protests which he hurled at Presiding Judge Dr. Wilhelm Bünger...
...evening of the fire Marinus van der Lubbe bought packages of patented kindling coal, climbed the outside of the Reichstag building at 9 p. m. and entered a balcony window of the deputies' restaurant. He lit one box of the kindling coal, threw it on a table behind the bar. Next he set fire to a plush curtain, a couple of table cloths and his own shirt. In the men's washroom he had apparently no trouble in causing a pile of used towels and his own vest to burst into flames. Police testimony had shown that...
Expert testimony had tended to show that it was impossible for Marinus van der Lubbe alone to have fired the Reichstag, as his confession insisted. Object of the prosecution was to show that the other defendants were his accomplices. Object of the defense was to show that Nazi Storm Troopers instigated and abetted Marinus van der Lubbe, so that Chancellor Hitler could win the March election on the issue of a Communist plot to seize the State...
Bang went the heavy hand of Judge Bünger. He adjourned the Court before dull Marinus van der Lubbe could blurt out anything...