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The Spark. Last week, as the institute welcomed foreign and domestic experts to its fourth annual convention of specialists on Nazi Germany, one of the prime topics on everyone's tongue was a question that the world believed answered long ago: Who set the Reichstag fire?
On the evening of Feb. 27, 1933, just a month after Hitler's coming to power, Berlin police entered the flaming Reichstag building and arrested one Marinus van der Lubbe, a shambling young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation...
Later, at a great show trial before the German Supreme Court in Leipzig, one of the key witnesses was Prussia's Minister President Hermann Göring (later Hitler's portly air marshal), who testified that the Reichstag fire resulted from a well-planned Communist conspiracy. Van der...
The Ashes. Ever since. Communists have contended that the fire was deliberately set by the Nazis themselves to justify snuffing out political freedom in Germany, and their contention has been widely accepted. But recently, West Germany's enterprising weekly newsmagazine, Der Spiegel, has been publishing a 60,000-word...
Spiegel's findings, praised by West German Historian Theodor Eschenburg as "serious and scientific," point out that the case against Hitler, Göring & Co. rests on hearsay as suspect as the Nazi accusation against the Communists. Spiegel had used, among other evidence, the institute's files in...