Gene Weingarten reminds us of the Reichstag fire and its aftermath. Germany's parliament building, the Reichstag, burned in February 1933 in the fourth week of Hitler's time as chancellor. In response, Very shrewdly, he went bananas.
Hitler seized on the event as an excuse to tighten his control of the state; it is considered one of the most potent factors leading to the global horror that was the Nazi era."