They were supposed to be celebrating tonight. The Nazis hadn’t picked up enough seats in the elections the week before to gain a majority in the Reichstag, but Hitler had officially banned the eighty-one elected communists the following day. It was the communists, after all, who had plotted to burn down the Reichstag, Diedrich had said. If you acted like a traitor you couldn’t cry about being treated like one. It made her wonder about the timing of the fire—right before the election, when the Nazis needed the electorate on their side the most. How perfect would it be to label one madman a
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