Who Burned down the Reichstag?

[Apoi_Viitor]

?

[Revolutionair]

I think it was a Dutch council communist named Marinus van der Lubbe.

[Tim Finnegan]

Actually, van der Lubbe was framed- something which was suspected since the time of the fire itself, and formally declared by the German government in 2008. It's now generally thought that the fire was started by a troop of SA men lead by Hans Gewehr, under orders from Goebbels. All participants were later murdered during the Night of Long Knives (regardless of their actual political alignment in that struggle), except for Gewher, who died during the war.

[Jose Gracchus]

Marinus van der Lubbe was, as it happens, schizophrenic and significantly mentally ill. He was not a competent defendant in any legitimate legal system.

[human strike]

Actually, I would argue the evidence suggests van der Lubbe wasn't framed. Just because they were Nazis doesn't mean they were necessarily lying. In more recent years many historians have begun to question the old accepted view that the Nazis burned the Reichstag.

[Jose Gracchus]

See above. He still was not a competent defendant, and even if the Nazi line were true, would in no way legitimately apologize for the repression of the Left.

[RATM-Eubie]

I thought the Nazis said it was the Jews?
Oh i forgot communists were jews!:rolleyes:

[Jose Gracchus]

Nazi: JUDEO-BOLSHEVISM!!!! :drool: