Timeline Monday 27 February 1933

Events on Monday 27 February 1933 1

• 1933 Reichstag fire Arson attack on the German parliament building in Berlin The Reichstag building in Berlin was set on fire on the night of 27 February, and the Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was arrested at the scene. The Nazi government blamed a communist plot and used the fire to justify the Reichstag Fire Decree, which suspended civil liberties across Germany.