Balder Ex-Libris

Author : Hett Benjamin Carter
Title : Burning the Reichstag An investigation into the Third Reich’s enduring mystery
Year : 2014

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Prologue. BERLIN, FEBRUARY 27, 1933 THE EVENING OF FEBRUARY 27, 1933, was a cold one in Berlin: six degrees below zero centigrade, with a sharp wind out of the east. There had been snow. The streets and sidewalks were icy. That night twenty-nine-year-old Chief Constable (Oberwachtmeister) Karl Buwert, who had been posted to watch the west and north sides of the Reichstag building from 8:00 to 10:00, was expecting a quiet shift. The weather would keep most people indoors. There was an election on and the Reichstag was not in session; many deputies were away campaigning, and the work of the building’s staff slowed down after 9:00. Between the rounds of the lighting man at 8:45 and the Reichstag mailman at 8:50 or 8:55, and the first inspection of the night watchman at 10:00, no one would be moving about inside the building. For this hour or so the Reichstag would be quiet, and, presumably—apart from the porter at the north entrance—empty. ...