Definitions System where everyone gets to vote for the government System where one person is in charge and no-one gets to vote The idea that everyone should be equal and there should be no private property or private business The place where MPs meet to discuss new laws

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The Reichstag Fire What Hitler said: “This act of arson is the most outrageous act yet committed by communism in Germany. The burning of the Reichstag was to have been the signal for a bloody uprising and civil war”.

The Reichstag Fire What Hitler did: Had the communist party banned Had 4000 leading communists arrested Banned other political parties Took control of running Germany himself

The Reichstag Fire Who is the source by? What does it say?

Marius van der Lubbe “I myself am a Leftist, and was a member of the Communist Party until 1929”. “I can only repeat that I set fire to the Reichstag all by myself. There is nothing complicated about this fire. It has quite a simple explanation”.

Did Marius van der Lubbe start the Reichstag fire? You will either argue that Marius van der Lubbe did nor did not start the fire. You will have 1 minute to make your case. You must include evidence from the sources to make your case. Write your case in your book.

Be able to describe what the Reichstag fire was Level 4 Be able to explain who they believed started the Reichstag fire Level 5 Be able to use a range of evidence to create a case for who started the Reichstag fire Level 6/7

Report from The Guardian Newspaper 2008 An unemployed Dutch bricklayer who was made a scapegoat for one of the defining moments of 20th-century German history has been pardoned for his crime 75 years later. The full pardon follows a decades-long legal process by Van der Lubbe's heirs to rehabilitate him.