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Greenwald Partner falsely detained as Terrorist: How to Create a Dictatorsh
If I may include a short excerpt from
Defying
Hitler by Sebastian Hafner describing
the
morning after the Reichstag fire:
“It was only the next morning that I read about the fire, and not until
midday that I read about the arrests. Around the same time a decree of
Hindenburg’s was promulgated. It abolished freedom of speech and confidentiality
of the mail and telephone for all private individuals, while giving the police
unrestricted rights of search and access, confiscation and arrest. . . . Those
newspapers that still appeared reported all this in a in a fawning, fervently
patriotic, jubilant tone. We had been saved! What good luck! Germany was free! .
. . . So the Communists had burned down the Reichstag. . . . Well perhaps it
really had been intended as the “signal” for the uprising, which had been
prevented by the “decisive” measures taken by the government.”
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