On Fritz Tobias and the Marinus van der Lubbe Theory
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Channel: Oxford Academic (Oxford University Press) · 2013 · Education
Historians were not the only ones to theorize about the origins of the Reichstag Fire; Fritz Tobias, a historian in the Nazi party, was one of the more prominent of the speculators of the time. Benjamin Carter Hett, author of Burning the Reichstag, explains Fritz Tobias's devious manipulation of the incident, and how far his theories were from the truth. http://global.oup.com/academic/product/burning-the-reichstag-9780199322329 (c) Oxford University Press
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