A half-blind Dutch-born bricklayer and Communist confessed to starting the fire, saying he acted alone. But though there was no evidence of any other involvement, Hitler "declared the arson attack to be a conspiracy by Communist agitators." There were mass arrests after this. Weingarten segués to the present and headlines in the US the past week — eerie parallels to the past.

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