On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:20 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> Shane repeats the Stalinists' point that van der Lubbe did not burn
> down the Reichstag, but he did, as he himself insisted, and to this
> day his comrades in the German 'Council Communist' group, like the
> late Paul Mattick Sr insist.
>
> http://kurasje.org/arkiv/12500f.htm
>
Once again we get parroted Nazi propaganda--that it was "Stalinists" who alleged that the Nazis torched the Reichstag. And an idiotic "Council Communist" screed saying that the execution of Van Der Lubbe-- in 1934!--was among the "first" Nazi atrocities.
Shane Mage
> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos