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[–] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

van der Lubbe did nothing wrong and does not deserve this hate. The nazis would have found an excuse to grab power anyway, this just sped it up. Also, “doused in flammable liquids” my ass, he tried setting multiple things on fire including reportedly his own clothes because the building wouldn't catch. He was one of a small number of heroes who tried to resist the nazis early and gets punished for it because some dipshit tankies wrote a book saying he was gay¹.

¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brown_Book_of_the_Reichstag_Fire_and_Hitler_Terror

e: grammar

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Wackerfuss states that Reichstag conspiracy appealed to antifascists because of their preexisting belief that "the heart of the Nazis' militant nationalist politics lay in the sinister schemes of decadent homosexual criminals".

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