In the name of national security, which hadn’t actually been threatened, the German people surrendered their rights.

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.

A symbol of Germany's past, present and future, the Reichstag, or Parliament Building, is a blend of different architecture styles from the late 20th to late 21st centuries. It symbolizes the ...

Moreover, it was declared that the Government was entitled to make these payments without reference to the Reichstag by virtue of special emergency legislation. Communiques prophesied that the ...

23 Mar 1933 The Enabling Act: with the communist deputies banned and the SA intimidating all the remaining non-Nazi deputies, the Reichstag voted by the required two-thirds majority to give Hitler ...

The House and the Senate, both with small Republican majorities, may soon be compelled to face the choice that the Reichstag faced in March 1933. One court has ruled that he defied the ...

With the communist deputies banned and the SA intimidating all the remaining non-Nazi deputies, the Reichstag voted by the required two-thirds majority to give Hitler the right to make laws ...

The years that led to the Holocaust were unique in modern history ... One such occurred in Berlin, exactly 92 years ago: the Reichstag fire of Feb. 27, 1933. The fire served as a convenient ...