There you see the Reichstag, the German house of parliament in
Berlin, which has been seriously destroyed by fire. The main hall
in which the deputies conducted their debates, has suffered most
from the conflagration, and after the general election which is
about to take place, parliament will have to find a temporary
home elsewhere. Flames are no respecters of persons, and
President Hindenburg's own chair was also destroyed. Hitler, now
chancellor, has announced that the fire was the work of
Communists, and was intended to be the signal for a Bolshevist
uprising throughout the country. In consequence, Germany has been
placed under a system of martial law, a decree having been signed
which aims at the total destruction of communism.