1933 hdln newspaper ARSONIST of THE REICHSTAG FIRE in Germany SENTENCED TO DEATH

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1933 headline display newspaper Marianus Van Der Lubbe, the ARSONIST in THE REICHSTAG FIRE in Nazi Germany, is SENTENCED TO DEATH -
inv # 7Q-222
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Brooklyn Daily Eagle
(NY) dated Dec 23, 1933.
This newspaper contains a prominent front page headline, photos, and news report of the end of the
TRIAL of the men accused of setting the REICHSTAG FIRE in Nazi Germany. MARIANUS VAN DER LUBBE was the only one convicted and he was sentenced to DEATH by BEHEADING
.
Great display newspaper on this pre WW II event during the early days of the rise of Adolph Hitler to power in Germany. The Reichstag Fire was used by the Nazis as an excuse to give more power to the Nazis in Germany.
Marinus van der Lubbe (13 January 1909
– 10 January 1934) was a Dutch Communist tried, convicted and executed for setting fire to the German Reichstag building on 27 February 1933, an event known as the Reichstag fire.
Marinus van der Lubbe was born in Leiden in the province of South Holland. His parents were divorced and, after his mother died when he was twelve years old, he went to live with his half-sister's family. In his youth, Van der Lubbe worked as a bricklayer. He was nicknamed Dempsey after boxer Jack Dempsey, because of his great strength. While working, Van der Lubbe came in contact with the labour movement; in 1925, he joined the Dutch Communist Party (CPN), and its youth wing; the Communist Youth Bund (CJB).
In 1926, he was injured at work, getting lime in his eyes, which left him in the hospital for a few months and almost left him blind. The injury forced him to quit his job, so he was unemployed with a pension of only 7.44 guilders a week. After a few conflicts with his sister, Van der Lubbe moved to Leiden in 1927. There he learned to speak some German and founded the Lenin House, where he organised political meetings. While working for the Tielmann factory a strike broke out. Van der Lubbe claimed to the management to be one of the ringleaders and offered to accept any punishment as long as no one else was victimised, even though he was clearly too inexperienced to have been seriously involved. During the trial, he tried to claim sole responsibility and was purportedly hostile to the idea of getting off free.
Afterwards, Van der Lubbe planned to emigrate to the Soviet Union, but he lacked the funds to do so. He was politically active among the unemployed workers' movement until 1931, when he fell into disagreement with the CPN and instead approached the Group of International Communists. In 1933, Van der Lubbe fled to Germany to take action in the local communist underground. He had a criminal record for arson.
Van der Lubbe said that he set the Reichstag building on fire as a cry to rally the German workers against the fascist rule. He was brought to trial along with the head of the German Communist Party and three Bulgarian members of the Comintern. At his trial, Van der Lubbe was convicted and sentenced to death for the Reichstag fire. The other four defendants (Ernst Torgler, Georgi Dimitrov, Blagoi Popov, and Vasil Tanev) at the trial were acquitted. He was guillotined in a Leipzig prison yard on 10 January 1934, three days before his 25th birthday.
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