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Nazi Germany — How did the Reichstag Fire enable Nazi dictatorship?
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On the night of 27 February 1933, the Reichstag burned — and Adolf Hitler used the crisis to dismantle German democracy in just eighteen months, almost entirely within the law. This is where the history of Nazi Germany begins.
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On the night of the twenty-seventh of February, nineteen thirty-three, the German Reichstag building burned. By morning, Adolf Hitler had what he needed.
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