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From The Times, May 5, 1923

The Burgomaster of Nuremberg has informed the City Council that the local police recently discovered at the headquarters of the National Socialists a quantity of arms and munitions, including two machine-guns. At the time of the discovery the arms were in charge of a number of men of the National Socialist storm troops and a sergeant belonging to the Nuremberg police. The latter was dismissed on the spot and proceedings have been begun against the leader of the Nationalist movement in Nuremberg.

Tests carried out on remains of young communist who confessed to arson attack that proved a gift to Hitler

When flames enveloped Germany’s parliament on the evening of 27 February 1933, six days before national elections, it was a political gift to Adolf Hitler, the recently appointed chancellor. The arson attack on the Reichstag by an “enemy within” secured his re-election and gave him the pretext to grab the dictatorial powers he craved.

Whether that gift fell into the Nazi leader’s lap by chance or was placed there via a covert false-flag operation has been the subject of bitter historical disputes ever since. Now, 90 years later, the body of the young communist whom historians have traditionally regarded as the sole perpetrator of the attack has been exhumed in the hope of finding a definitive answer.