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1933 CE, February 27

The Reichstag fire in Berlin on February 27, 1933, allows Adolf Hitler to claim on the following day that it was a communist conspiracy and to seize emergency powers, which suspended civil liberties, allowed for mass arrests, and enabled the crackdown on political opposition. Leading ultimately to Nazi dictatorship in Germany.

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