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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Reichstag Fire Decree
		The Reichstag Fire Decree (in German, Reichstagsbrandverordnung) is the commonly used abbreviation for the law that was passed by the Nazi government in direct response to the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933.
		It is therefore permissible to restrict the rights to personal freedom [meaning habeas corpus], freedom of speech, including the freedom of the press, the freedom to organize and assemble, the privacy of letters, mail, telegraphs and telephones, order searches and confiscations and restrict property, even if this is not otherwise provided for by present law.
		The Reichstag Fire Decree was thus one of the major steps that allowed Hitler to seize power (see Gleichschaltung).
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/re/Reichstag_Fire_Decree (444 words)

	CalendarHome.com - - Calendar Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung in German) is the common name of the decree issued by German president Paul von Hindenburg in direct response to the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933.
		The decree is considered by historians to be one of the key steps in the establishment of a one-party Nazi state in Germany.
		The Reichstag Fire Decree was thus one of the key steps which the Hitler government took to formally establish one-party dictatorship and has been described as the "Magna Carta of the Third Reich".
	encyclopedia.calendarhome.com /cgi-bin/encyclopedia.pl?p=Reichstag_Fire_Decree (1195 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung in German) is the common name of the decree issued by German president Paul von Hindenburg in direct response to the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933.
		With Nazis in powerful positions of the German government, the decree was used as the legal basis of imprisonment of anyone considered to be opponents of the Nazis, and was used to suppress publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause.
		The decree is considered by historians to be one of the key steps in the establishment of a one-party Nazi state in Germany.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Reichstag_Fire_Decree (958 words)

	Reichstag - German parliament - Reichstag Fire and Trial in Leipzig 1933
		The Reichstag of 919 in Fritzlar elected the first Saxon prince, Henry the Fowler, king of the Germans (Henry I), thus overcoming the longstanding rivalry between Franks and Saxons and laying the foundation for the German Empire.
		The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed as the seat of the Reichstag in the German Empire and, after a major reconstruction, has been the seat of today's German parliament, the Bundestag, since 1999.
		The Reichstag fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany, began at 21:14 on the night of 27.
	www.germannotes.com /hist_reichstag.shtml (2007 words)

	Reichstag. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The new Reichstag, however, was not powerless; it was the supreme legislative body of the republic.
		In the sensational Reichstag fire trial of 1933, a Dutchman named Marinus van der Lubbe was charged with having set the fire as part of a Communist plot.
		For many years it was assumed outside Germany that the Reichstag fire was carried out by the Nazis themselves as a propaganda maneuver to ensure the defeat of the Communists and other leftist parties in the elections.
	www.bartleby.com /65/re/Reichstg.html (642 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Reichstag Fire Decree was one of the first steps the Nazis took toward the establishment of a one-party dictatorship in Germany.
		Though the March 5 elections did not bring the Nazis their much-desired majority in the Reichstag, the Nazis were able to maneuver on March 23, 1933 the passage of the Enabling Act by the required two-thirds parliamentary majority, effectively abrogating the authority of the Reichstag and placing its authority in the hands of the Cabinet.
		The Reichstag Fire Decree was the basis of later decrees that abolished the political parties other than the NSDAP and strengthened Hitler's dictatorial power.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Article_48_(Weimar_Constitution) (841 words)

	Reichstag Fire Decree - Biocrawler
		At the behest of Chancellor Adolf Hitler, the law was issued by the aging (and lapsing in and out of senility) Paul von Hindenburg using the authority of Art.
		The articles 114, 115, 117, 118, 123, 124 and 153 of the constitution of the German Empire are suspended until further notice.
		The Reichstag Fire Decree was thus one of the major steps that allowed Hitler to seize power (see Gleichschaltung) and has been fittingly labelled the "Magna Charta of the Third Reich".
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Reichstag_Fire_Decree (413 words)

	Reichstag Fire Decree - Historic Event - German Archive: The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung in ...
		Reichstag Fire Decree - Historic Event - German Archive: The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung in German) is the common name of the decree issued by German president Paul von Hindenburg in direct response to the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933.
		With Nazis in key positions of the German government, the decree was used as the legal basis of imprisonment of anyone considered to be opponents of the Nazis, and was used to suppress publications not considered 'friendly' to the Nazi cause.
		The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung in German) is the common name of the decree issued by German president Paul von Hindenburg in direct response to the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933.
	www.germannotes.com /archive/article.php?products_id=149&osCsid=6843c6a3059c3daad9b9d9a8c379e6e8 (924 words)

	Reichstag - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Reichstag [Ger.,=imperial parliament], name for the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of the North German Confederation, and for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany from 1871 to 1945.
		The new Reichstag, however, was not powerless; it was the supreme legislative body of the republic.
		For many years it was assumed outside Germany that the Reichstag fire was carried out by the Nazis themselves as a propaganda maneuver to ensure the defeat of the Communists and other leftist parties in the elections.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-reichstg.html (775 words)

	Weimar Republic
		On February 27, 1933 the Reichstag building was burned out to a shell, of which the Nazis took advantage with the Reichstag Fire Decree.
		The Reichstag drove the final nails in Weimar's coffin by passing the Enabling Act on March 23, 1933, which formally gave Hitler the power to govern by decree and in effect disbanded the remainders of the Weimar constitution altogether.
		For example, the Reichstag Fire Decree was issued on the basis of Article 48.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/we/Weimer_republic.html (4165 words)

	The World at War
		The fire quickly raced out of control despite the efforts of the fire fighters and soon only the walls of the gutted building were still standing.
		A shaken President Hindenburg, 86 years old, was easily convinced that the nation was on the verge of a communist revolution, was induced by Hitler to sign an emergency decree suspending the basic rights of the citizens for the duration of the emergency.
		This decree also authorized the Reich government to assume full powers in any federal state whose government proved unable to restore public order, ordered death or imprisonment for a number of crimes including some newly invented such as resistance to the decree itself.
	worldatwar.net /event/reichstagsbrand (683 words)

	Reichstag Fire Decree - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reichstag Fire Decree (Reichstagsbrandverordnung in German) is the common name of the decree issued by German president Paul von Hindenburg in direct response to the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933.
		With Nazis in key positions of the German government, the decree was used as the legal basis of imprisonment of anyone considered to be opponents of the Nazis, and was used to suppress publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause.
		The Reichstag Fire Decree was thus one of the key steps which the Hitler government took to formally establish one-party dictatorship and has been described as the "Magna Carta of the Third Reich".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reichstag_Fire_Decree (1190 words)

	Enabling Act
		The Enabling Act (in German: Ermächtigungsgesetz), passed by the Reichstag on March 23, 1933, was the second major step after the Reichstag Fire Decree through which the Nazi dictatorship was established legally.
		While there had been previous enabling acts in the history of the Weimar Republic, this one was far more reaching since Article 2 allowed for changing the constitution as well.
		Hitler had taken care of that though: by the powers provided of the Reichstag Fire Decree, most of the KPD deputies were already jailed, and those mandates were declared "dormant" through a change of the Reichstag rules of procedure.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/en/Enabling_Act.html (652 words)

	9/11 - the American Reichstag Fire and the Fourth Reich
		Van der Lubbe was the patsy in the Reichstag fire.
		Indeed, the more you study the Reichstag fire, its origins and uses, the more you see what a stunning parallel to it 9/11 is -- on the face of it, as well as in some of the intricacies.
		Though the ensuing elections still did not give the Nazis an outright majority, they were able to persuade the Reichstag to pass an Enabling Act (March 23) whereby all its legislative powers were transferred to the Reich Cabinet by a vote of 444 to 94, so sanctioning the dictatorship.
	www.oilempire.us /reichstag-fire.html (4395 words)

	The Reichstag Fire, 68 years on
		According to Nazi propaganda, the Reichstag fire was intended as a signal for a communist uprising that had long been planned—a claim for which there was not a shred of evidence.
		The communists accused by the Nazi authorities at the Reichstag Fire Trial in Leipzig were already ruled out in 1933 for obvious reasons: quite apart from the lack of evidence, the suicidal and thus nonsensical nature of such a deed was self-evident, despite Nazi propaganda to the contrary.
		Before the Reichstag fire broke out, he had been in the subterranean passageway that connects the Reichstag assembly building to the building in which the government apartment of the Reich President [Hermann Göring] is located.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jul2001/reic-j05.shtml (2380 words)

	The Rise of Hitler - Feb. 27, 1933 The Reichstag Burns
		The Reichstag was the building in Berlin where the elected members of the republic met to conduct the daily business of government.
		The storm troopers, led by SA leader Karl Ernst, used the underground tunnel that connected Göring's residence with the cellar in the Reichstag.
		Hitler left the fire scene and went straight to the offices of his newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, to oversee its coverage of the fire.
	www.prisonplanet.com /the_rise_of_hitler_the_reichstag_burns.htm (1454 words)

	Reichstag fire at AllExperts
		The Reichstag fire was a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
		The Reichstag fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany, began at 9:14 PM on the night of February 27, 1933, when a Berlin fire station received an alarm that the Reichstag building, assembly location of the German Parliament, was ablaze.
		As a consequence of the Reichstag Fire Decree, the police and the SA, actually a paramilitary organization of Hitler's party, seized all Communist Party buildings in Germany, along with weapons they claimed were to be used in the coup.
	en.allexperts.com /e/r/re/reichstag_fire.htm (1849 words)

	The Reichstag Fire: What We Know Today
		However, even before the Reichstag Fire Trial in Leipzig, the Legal Commission of the International Investigation Committee had reached the conclusion that Nazi agents had set fire to the Reichstag and that van der Lubbe was innocent of the crime.
		Before the Reichstag fire broke out, he had been in the subterranean passageway that connects the Reichstag assembly building to the building in which the government apartment of the Reich President (Hermann Göring) is located.
		Bahar and Kugel also discovered that many of the SA involved in the Reichstag fire and the framing of van der Lubbe were murdered by fellow Nazis, along with lesser accomplices during the so-called “Röhm putsch” of June 30, 1934, thus insuring their silence.
	www.gnn.tv /threads/12112/The_Reichstag_Fire_What_We_Know_Today (1579 words)

	The German Reichstag in Berlin
		Regardless of who started the fire, there is no doubt that the Nazis took advantage of the situation in order to proceed with their cause at the expense of the civil rights and freedom of the German people.
		In the same night of the Reichstag fire, the Nazis used the opportunity to arrest 4,000 communists.(16) Not only did the Nazis use the incident as a propaganda against communists but they also arrested additional 40,000 members of the opposition.
		After a new Reichstag had been elected on March 23, 1933, the Nazis met in the Kroll Opera, east of the Königsplatz, and on March 24, they passed the Law for Terminating the Suffering of People and Nation at the Reichstag, which was also known as the Enabling Act, giving Adolf Hitler ultimate dictatorial power.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Cyprus/7002/ThirdReich.html (1029 words)

	Reichstag Fire
		The Reichstag fire was officially attributed to a nearly blind Dutch communist radical named Marinus van der Lubbe who was arrested in the Reichstag building as it burned.
		However, even before the Reichstag Fire Trial in Leipzig, the Legal Commission of the International Investigation Committee had reached the conclusion that Nazi agents had set fire to the Reichstag and that van der Lubbe was innocent of the crime.
		As discussed earlier, the fire was blamed on a widespread communist conspiracy and led to the end of the Weimar Republic and the true beginning of the Nazi totalitarian power.
	1933key.com /news/reichstag_fire.html (2068 words)

	Reichstag fire (February 1933) - Biografie Willy Brandt
		That same night the National Socialists claim that the Reichstag fire is the result of a Communist conspiracy, whereas Hitler’s opponents are convinced that the National Socialists set the fire themselves (the most recent research speaks for a solo action by van der Lubbe).
		Whatever the truth may be, of greater consequence is the far-reaching political and historical capital which the National Socialists wrest from the event: They show a decisive and uncompromising will to exploit the events to destroy their political opponents and impose an unlimited dictatorship.
		On the day following the Reichstag fire, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg signs a „Emergency Decree to Protect the People and the State“: It rescinds the Weimar Constitution’s catalogue of basic rights and hands the Nazis far-reaching means for persecuting their political opponents.
	www.bwbs.de /bwbs_biografie/Reichstag_fire_B1087.html (243 words)

	The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
		In all circumstances, van der Lubbe was arrested and later executed for the deed, and the Nazis convinced President von Hindenburg to sign the so-called >'Reichstag Fire Decree' - ‘Decree by the Reich President for the Defence of People and State’ on 28 February 1933.
		The Reichstag Fire Decree was originally planned to be in effect for only a brief period of time.
		In this respect, the Reichstag Fire Decree constituted the perfect weapon, because it could be used as the formal basis for state-controlled attacks against left-wing politicians.
	www.holocaust-education.dk /baggrund/nazisternesmagtovertagelse.asp (783 words)

	Reichstag Fire
		By 21:14 the fire alarm is received by the local firestation and the firemen are in the building by 21:24 but fires are breaking out everywhere.
		First van der Lubbe was, in the period, immediately before the fire in the clutches of a couple of a couple of SA men.
		The evidence suggests the fire was the work of the Nazi party but not the state.
	www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk /hist/fire.html (973 words)

	Reichstag fire (February 1933) - Biografie Willy Brandt
		That same night the National Socialists claim that the Reichstag fire is the result of a Communist conspiracy, whereas Hitler’s opponents are convinced that the National Socialists set the fire themselves (the most recent research speaks for a solo action by van der Lubbe).
		Whatever the truth may be, of greater consequence is the far-reaching political and historical capital which the National Socialists wrest from the event: They show a decisive and uncompromising will to exploit the events to destroy their political opponents and impose an unlimited dictatorship.
		On the day following the Reichstag fire, Reich President Paul von Hindenburg signs a „Emergency Decree to Protect the People and the State“: It rescinds the Weimar Constitution’s catalogue of basic rights and hands the Nazis far-reaching means for persecuting their political opponents.
	www.willy-brandt.org /bwbs_biografie/Reichstag_fire_B1087.html (243 words)

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