Posted on 01/10/2021 4:40:11 PM PST by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1934, Dutch bricklayer Marinus van der Lubbe was beheaded by guillotine in Leipzig for setting the Reichstag Fire.
A watershed event* in the formation of the Nazi dictatorship, the Reichstag fire days before a parliamentary election enabled Hitler to stampede voters, suspend civil liberties, suppress left-wing parties on grounds of a suspected Communist plot, and seize “emergency” powers he would never relinquish.
Van der Lubbe, who was arrested on the scene, suffered the predictable fate. Four other Communists charged as accomplices were acquitted, in a trial with the gratifying spectacle of Hermann Goering personally testifying, and being undressed on cross-examination by one of the reds. One is reminded here that Hitler did not yet have everything in the state apparatus at his beck and call … although he did have a great deal already, inasmuch as the arson law under which van der Lubbe died was passed after the Reichstag fire and made retroactive...
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Why isn’t anyone mentioning the 1954 attack on Congress which wounded 5 Congressmen?
The Left lionizes them and they even have a section of The Smithsonian dedicated to them.
I think someone posted something on FR about that within the last couple of days.
Find something and post it. I didn’t know The Smithsonian had an exhibit about this. Find something on this exhibit and post it.
I only posted what I did because I post something everyday from Headsman’s execution blog as a “This Day in History” type thing and I thought this one, out of the 3 or so others I might have normally chosen, was the most apropo given recent events.
I’m not posting anything else tonight. I’m trying to limit my postings and go crazy with them fewer days of the week than I have.
Too much time on the laptop is not good for the neck.
Antifa/BLM started fires all over 10 states late summer into early fall . Eyewitnesses to them starting numerous forest fires in Oregon were SQUELCHED! That’s not to mention all of the arson fires they set in the cities And they were allowed to ride roughshod over the general population FOR MONTHS!
Marinus van der Lubbe was one of the most tragic figures in history. He was — how can one say it nowadays without being canceled? — simple (we used to say “special”); he had a very low intelligence level and was not so much a bricklayer as a laborer. Think Quazimodo without the hump.
He was set up.
I’ve visited the Smithsonian many times and I believe you’re wrong. And an exhibit on that attack would be no more “dedicated to them” than an exhibit on the Lincoln assassination would be dedicated to Booth.
So true!
I most certainly do not agree with what these perps did, but I agree with their cause!!
Puerto Rico MUST become independent—the sooner, the better. Then it will NEVER become a new US State, to be used by the Democrat-Communists to consolidate their power!!!! (It may be too late, however.)
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In any event after a raucous show trial in which van der Lubbe was railroaded into a death sentence he was beheaded for the crime. No one was ever actually tried for starting the fire although most historians believe Hermann Goering was behind the whole thing.
As I said: He was set up.
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