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Wednesday, 16 January 2008 |
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Germany pardons Dutchman beheaded for Reichstag fire
'Mentally disabled Marinus van der Lubbe was cleared under a law introduced in 1998 to lift unjust verdicts dating from the Nazi era. Seventy-five years since the Reichstag building in Berlin was gutted by fire, the Dutchman executed by the Nazis for starting the blaze has been posthumously pardoned by the German state, federal justice officials said yesterday.
Marinus van der Lubbe, a member of the Communist party, was cleared under a law introduced in 1998 to lift unjust verdicts dating from the Nazi era.'
The Nazis burned down the building themselves to 'justify' their imposition of dictatorship. It was a classic Problem-Reaction-Solution. Marinus van der Lubbe was another Lee Harvey Oswald and Mohamed Atta - blamed by the authorities for what they had done themselves.
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