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The Reichstag Fire: How a Blaze Sealed Hitler's Power
On the night of February 27, 1933, a fire tore through the Reichstag building in Berlin. Within hours, Hitler had a decree that suspended civil liberties, and within weeks, Germany's fragile democracy was gone. In this episode, Lucas and Luna peel back the layers of that fateful night: the lone arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe, the communists who were blamed, the mysterious underground tunnel that connected the building to Göring's office, and the tangled evidence that still fuels conspiracy theories. They trace how a single act of arson handed Hitler the pretext he needed to crush…
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