A false flag operation conducted by the National Socialist party in Germany weeks after German Chancellor Adolf Hitler’s ascension to power. The purpose of the operation was to blame the enemies of national socialism and empower the new regime with enabling legislation to stomp out its enemies and further restrict constitutional and human rights.1
On 31st January, 1933, Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary about the plans to deal with the German Communist Party (KPD):
“During discussions with the Führer we drew up the plans of battle against the red terror. For the time being, we decided against any direct counter-measures. The Bolshevik rebellion must first of all flare up; only then shall we hit back.” (1)
On 24th February, the Gestapo raided Communist headquarters. Hermann Göring claimed that he had found “barrels of incriminating material concerning plans for a world revolution”. (2) However, the alleged subversive documents were never published and it is assumed that in reality the Nazi government had not discovered anything of any importance. (3)
Three days after the KPD raid, the Reichstag building caught fire. It was reported at ten o’clock when a Berlin resident telephoned the police and said: “The dome of the Reichstag building is burning in brilliant flames.” The Berlin Fire Department arrived minutes later and although the main structure was fireproof, the wood-paneled halls and rooms were already burning. (4)
Following advise of some German historians who were friendly to him, WWII author and diligent researcher David Irving was able to find the private diary of Dr. Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi Propaganda Minister, microfilmed on eighteen hundred glass plates. [See: D. Irving, “The Suppressed Eichmann and Goebbels Papers,” March–April 1993 Journal, pp. 14–25.] He writes of his discovering the handwritten entry for the Reichstag fire:
For example, I read for the first time Goebbels’ hand-written entry about the Reichstag fire. As he described it, he was at his home with Hitler on that evening of February 27, 1933, when the phone rang at nine o’clock. It was the prankster “Putzi” Hanfstaengl, saying: “The Reichstag’s on fire.” Goebbels remembered that he’d been had twice by Hanfstaengl already that week, and he thought this was another prank, so he just put the phone down. Hanfstaengl phoned again and said, “You’d better listen to what I’m saying, The Reichstag’s on fire.” Goebbels realized this could be serious after all, so he made a phone call to the police station at the Brandenburg Gate, which confirmed that the Reichstag was on fire. Thereupon he and Hitler jumped into a car and drove straight to the Reichstag where they found their worst fears confirmed. This is in the hand-written diary, it is obviously genuine, and it confirms what we know from other sources.
If Goebbels was surprised by the fire and was as close of an advisor and trusted friend to Hitler as we’ve come to understand, surely Hitler would have let him in on the false flag, unless it was not a false flag at all.
Göring, who had been at work in the nearby Prussian Ministry of the Interior, was quickly on the scene. Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels arrived soon after. So also did Rudolf Diels: “Shortly after my arrival in the burning Reichstag, the National Socialist elite had arrived. On a balcony jutting out of the chamber, Hitler and his trusty followers were assembled.” Göring told him: “This is the beginning of the Communist Revolt, they will start their attack now! Not a moment must be lost. There will be no mercy now. Anyone who stands in our way will be cut down. The German people will not tolerate leniency. Every communist official will be shot where he is found. Everybody in league with the Communists must be arrested. There will also no longer be leniency for social democrats.” (5)
Testimony in the Nuremburg trials (Nazi general Franz Halder) revealed that the fire was coordinated by Hermann Goring, a leading member of the Nazi party. The fire was alleged to have been a Nazi party false flag used as evidence that the Communists were beginning a plot against the German government.
