the reichstag fire and election
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- the reichstag fire and reichstag election
- 27 Feb - 5 Mar 1933
- the Reichstag building was set on fire
- A Dutch communist, van der Lubbe, was caught red-handed in the burning building
- in the election 44 per cent of the population voted for the Nazis, who won 288 seats in the Reichstag
- Hitler had to join with the nationalists to form a majority
- Hitler used the fire to persuade Hindenburg to pass an emergency law restricting personal liberty
- enabled Hitler to imprison many communist leaders, which stopped them campaigning during the election
- gave them enough seats after Hitler arrested all communist deputies and other parties had been intimidated by the SA to pass the Enabling Act.
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