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There you see the Reichstag, the German house of parliament in Berlin,

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which has been seriously destroyed by fire.

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The main hall in which the deputies conducted their debates,

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has suffered most from the conflagration,

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and after the general election which is about to take place,

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parliament will have to find a temporary home elsewhere.

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Flames are no respecters of persons,

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and President Hindenburg's own chair was also destroyed.

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Hitler, now chancellor, has announced that the fire was

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the work of Communists,

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and was intended to be the signal for a Bolshevist uprising

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throughout the country.

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In consequence, Germany has been placed

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under a system of martial law,

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a decree having been signed which aims

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at the total destruction of communism.