“It is February 27th 1933 and I am Marinus van der Lubbe, a somewhat slow young man who was just asked by some very brave good protestors to help set a small fire in a strangely unguarded nice building they doused with flammable liquids. What should I do?”
van der Lubbe did nothing wrong and does not deserve this hate. The nazis would have found an excuse to grab power anyway, this just sped it up. Also, “doused in flammable liquids” my ass, he tried setting multiple things on fire including reportedly his own clothes because the building wouldn’t catch. He was one of a small number of heroes who tried to resist the nazis early and gets punished for it because some dipshit tankies wrote a book saying he was gay¹.
Wackerfuss states that Reichstag conspiracy appealed to antifascists because of their preexisting belief that “the heart of the Nazis’ militant nationalist politics lay in the sinister schemes of decadent homosexual criminals”.
Yeah, early antifascists kinda sucked too. It didn’t help that the leader of the SA was openly gay, so a lot of antifascists latched onto that as an attack and a rallying cry.
“It is February 27th 1933 and I am Marinus van der Lubbe, a somewhat slow young man who was just asked by some very brave good protestors to help set a small fire in a strangely unguarded nice building they doused with flammable liquids. What should I do?”
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van der Lubbe did nothing wrong and does not deserve this hate. The nazis would have found an excuse to grab power anyway, this just sped it up. Also, “doused in flammable liquids” my ass, he tried setting multiple things on fire including reportedly his own clothes because the building wouldn’t catch. He was one of a small number of heroes who tried to resist the nazis early and gets punished for it because some dipshit tankies wrote a book saying he was gay¹.
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¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brown_Book_of_the_Reichstag_Fire_and_Hitler_Terror
e: grammar
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Yeah, early antifascists kinda sucked too. It didn’t help that the leader of the SA was openly gay, so a lot of antifascists latched onto that as an attack and a rallying cry.