On Jan 20, 2010, at 12:46 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> What is all your bluster about, Shane? Marinus van der Lubbe said he
> burnt down the Reichstag; his own comrades say he burnt down the
> Reichstag. He burnt down the Reichstag. Even Dimitrov said he should
> have been executed.
More "lone nut" nuttery. "Confession" by an idiot in the hands of Göring, as he was when they put him, dazed, into the burning Reichstag. And Dimitrov, who said that Tukhachevsky, Bukharin, and Trotsky should have been executed, saying that Göring's idiot patsy should have been executed.
Hans Bernd Gisevius, a (conservative) survivor of the anti-Hitler resistance, was an eyewitness. He testified at the Nürnberg trial unchallenged.
My brother John last year wrote a splendid Monthly Review article on this Reichstag Fire revisionist nonsense. Read it.
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