I’m always troubled when politicians or commentators attempt to link the authoritarianism of the Trump administration to 1930s Germany. The years that led to the Holocaust were unique in modern ...

On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, an arsonist attacked the Reichstag, Germany’s historic parliamentary building. It was a critical moment in the country’s collapse from democracy to dictatorship. Today, ...

Donald Trump, J.D. Vance and various of their acolytes have threatened massive retribution and attacks designed, among other things, to ”destroy” so-called “radical left” groups on account of their ...

On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag, or German Parliament building, burned down. This was less than a month after Adolph Hitler took power as Germany's Fuhrer. Hitler and his Nazi Party used the fire ...

Around 9 p.m. Feb. 27, 1933, pedestrians near the Reichstag, Germany's parliamentary building in Berlin, heard the sound of glass breaking. About 20 minutes later, smoke was observed. Sefton Delmer, a ...

Douglas Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, implied last week that the insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was a false flag operation similar to the Reichstag fire in ...

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the German Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933. That arson blaze ignited one of history’s ugliest stories of a fragile democracy gone tragically bad -- and its ...

When each day brings more news than we are used to seeing in a week, and the kind of news that only the most catastrophic imagination can accommodate, we find ourselves talking about the Reichstag ...

Shortly after 9 p.m., on February 27, 1933, the Berlin fire station received an alarm: the Reichstag, the center of German government, was on fire. This was four weeks after Adolf Hitler had assumed ...