The Reichstag Fire Decree was passed on Feb. 28. It put the Nazis within touching distance of legally establishing the dictatorship that would bring about World War II, the Holocaust, and the near ...

With the decree in place, the government began to arrest members of the opposition parties — namely the Communists, who they blamed for the Reichstag fire. Within months, they had also destroyed the ...

Flames, of course, were the proximate cause to the power grab by the Nazis a little more than 90 years ago in Weimar Germany. On the evening of Feb. 27, 1933, a fire began inside the Reichstag ...

The day after the fire, President Paul von Hindenburg signed the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended most civil liberties in Germany and banned media considered unfriendly to Hitler.