I’m always troubled when politicians or commentators attempt to link the authoritarianism of the Trump administration to 1930s Germany. The years that led to the Holocaust were unique in modern ...

This episode traces how political manipulation, fear and orchestrated crisis allowed Hitler to use the Reichstag Fire and the ...

When each day brings more news than we are used to seeing in a week, and the kind of news that only the most catastrophic imagination can accommodate, we find ourselves talking about the Reichstag ...

On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, an arsonist attacked the Reichstag, Germany’s historic parliamentary building. It was a critical moment in the country’s collapse from democracy to dictatorship. Today, ...

Remember the Reichstag fire? It was perhaps the seminal event that sealed Germany’s fate as a socialist dictatorship before the Allies were finally able to pry that nation out of the jaws of Nazism in ...

(Editor's note: This story contains language in paragraph 12 that may offend some readers) VIENNA (Reuters) - Turkey's failed coup and President Tayyip Erdogan's subsequent purges of state ...

One of the stranger aspects of Gen. Mark Milley’s outburst is his apparent assumption that Nazis set the Reichstag Fire (“Gen. Milley Reminisces About the Battle of the Beltway” by Gerard Baker, Free ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Science fiction author Charlie Stross has canceled future trips to the US: As for my ...