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gar | 08.12.2008 23:04 | Social Struggles | World

The 1933 Reichstag Fire was a key event in Adolph Hitler's ascendancy to power. During the night of February 27th, the Reichstag Building ...>>>




The 1933 Reichstag Fire was a key event in Adolph Hitler's ascendancy to power. During the night of February 27th, the Reichstag Building, which housed the German Parliament, was gutted by a massive fire. Adolph Hitler, who had become President Paul von Hindenburg's chancellor less than a month earlier, pressured von Hindenburg to give him essentially dictatorial powers. Hitler used the attack to roll back the legal guarantees of personal liberty enshrined in the constitution. Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch Communist who had been protesting against Hitler's new government, was picked up on the night of the fire and charged, along with four other Communists, with setting the fires. Van der Lubbe was executed on January 10th, 1934, while the other defendants were acquitted. Most historians think that Hitler had the fire set, while finding a scapegoat in the impoverished Dutchman, van der Lubbe.


The Greek government is in distress due to economical situation, rising unemployment, rising national depth with a lot of scandals rocking and shaking the moral of the government , with only one MP majority in parliament and the gallops forecasting that the ruling New Democracy party is a minority. The good old tricks might work or might not. The riots and the burning Athens may help in New Democracy ascendancy to power again. The fires will be used to roll back the legal guarantees of personal liberties. They may try to find their own 21st century Marinus van der Lubbe. The good old trick may work or may not.
BUT THIS PLAN IS A RISKY PLAN OVERTAKEN BY DESPERATE POLITICIANS DESPERATE TO REMAIN IN POWER.

gar
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Can you translate this (Is the person on the foto andreas?

08.12.2008 23:21



Can you translate this (Is the person on the foto andreas?

 http://de.indymedia.org/2008/12/235185.shtml

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no he is not

08.12.2008 23:39

1st The name of the murdered student is ALEXANDROS GRIGOROPOULOS ( actually a son of a very wealthy family of Athens ....)

The name of the Policeman that shot him is Epaminondas Korkoneas, ex army special forces member. Serving in Exarhia police dpt

The foto is of an imigrand tortured by the Greek Police..

regards..

gar
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@gar Who was the Migrant?

09.12.2008 00:20

1:) When was the migrant tortured? What was his name? Where did he come from? Was the migrant killed? Thanks, Faulks

ps. Van der Lubbe was an Anarchist who had no connections with the communist party at all.

But the burning was used as a pretext for suppressing the left.

It has never been solved wether the nazis burned the reichstag - or van der lubbe.

Maybe ure right that the protest will help the conservatives to remain in power and bring back a dictatorship. On the other hand, the state doesn´t need an excuse for bringing in strickter laws, they´r doing it anyway -at least in Germany.

The other question is: how do you bring down a right wing government when there are no elections?

faulks
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der Lubbe was a marxist, historic consensus is Nazis recruited him for the fire

09.12.2008 03:44

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinus_van_der_Lubbe
anarchist? what like the republican party member who shot Lincoln, apprently he was anarchist too.

james


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