On March 23, the Reichstag delegates met across the street from the burned ruins of the Reichstag in the Kroll Opera House.

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

Germany’s likely next chancellor on Thursday urged outgoing members of parliament to exempt some defense spending from the ...

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Hitler was furious when he learned that Strasser had met with Schleicher to explore potential cooperation. He accused ...

To Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, though, Article 48 was just a loophole. When a solitary Communist attacked the Reichstag in a misguided attempt at protest, the Nazis immediately weaponized the ...

In January 1933, Adolf Hitler became Chancellor close ChancellorThe leader in the Reichstag, appointed by the German President. of Germany. He led the right-wing Nationalist Socialist German ...

In March of 1933, with the National Socialist Party shy of a majority in the Reichstag, Hitler sought and obtained a two-thirds majority vote in the chamber that passed what we know as the ...

On Feb. 27, 1933, Germany’s parliament building, the Reichstag, was gutted by fire; Chancellor Adolf Hitler, blaming communists, used the fire to justify suspending civil liberties. In 1942, the ...

One such occurred in Berlin, exactly 92 years ago: the Reichstag fire of Feb. 27, 1933. The fire served as a convenient crisis for Hitler’s government to declare a state of emergency and begin ...