"Firefighters and police discovered a Dutch communist named Marinus van der Lubbe at the scene, who confessed to being the arsonist. The Nazi Reichstag president, Hermann Goring, soon arrived, followed by the future propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler, who had been dining together. Two competing, still unresolved, conspiracy theories would circulate about the real culprit: the Nazis, with van der Lubbe as front; or a communist cabal. But the three men had no doubts."
"On 10 September 2025, within minutes of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, before a suspect or a motive had been identified, a cacophony of voices from neo-Nazi influencers to Republican members of Congress were blaming the left for the murder of the hugely effective far-right political organizer. Donald Trump amplified the indictments. Radical left rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today,"
On the night of 27 February 1933 the German Reichstag was set on fire and a Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was found and confessed. Hermann Goring, Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler immediately labeled the blaze a communist plot and used the incident to justify crushing opponents. Two unresolved conspiracy theories persisted about who actually carried out the arson. On 10 September 2025 Charlie Kirk was assassinated and immediate accusations from neo-Nazi influencers, Republican members of Congress and Donald Trump blamed the left before suspects or motives were known. The events illustrate opportunistic political scapegoating in 1933 and similar rapid politicized blame in 2025 while recognizing different democratic conditions and historical context.
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