Adolf HitlerFebruary 1933
At the end of the Reichstag Fire trial only Van der Lubbe is convicted, while his fellow defendants are found not guilty
Germany · Government / NSDAP Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
At the end of the Reichstag Fire trial only Van der Lubbe is convicted, while his fellow defendants are found not guilty
Marinus van der Lubbe, Ernst Torgler, Georgi Dimitrov, Blagoi Popov, and Vassil Tanev are indicted on charges of setting the Reichstag on fire
Found guilty of warcrimes at the Nuremberg trials & hanged
Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial
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