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Blame Reds For Reichstag Fire

German Government Orders All Arrested; Dutchman Confesses.
Publication Date
Tuesday, February 28, 1933
Historical Event
Reichstag Fire Plunges Germany into Virtual Martial Law
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The Knoxville News-Sentinel
Location
Knoxville, Tennessee
Page Section and Number
2
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BERLIN, Feb. 28— The Hitler government today ordered the arrest of every Communist connected with the government, for alleged complicity in a terrorist plot which began with the attempted destruction by fire of the Reichstag buildings.

A ban on the Communist and Social-Democrat press was decreed by Hermann Wilhelm Goering, minister without portfolio In the Hitler government.

Goering charged the Reichstag fire was part of a Communist plot which sought destruction of all government buildings and "the wholesale looting of Berlin.”

Evidence indicated that the fire which left the main hall of the legislative building a mass of charred ruins, but which spared the library, was deliberately set by a Dutch Communist named Van Der Luebbe, acting in concert with a number of other conspirators.

Police reported that after the fire was discovered, men were seen rushing thru[sic] the building with lighted torches.

Van Der Luebbe said he had no confederates in his attempt to destroy the government buildings.
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