100 Historical Stories That Unlock Teenage Wisdom

Chapter 39 10 The Congressional Arson Case

Chapter 410 The Congressional Arson Case

——All mouths make gold, accumulate and destroy bones. Many mouths make gold, accumulate and destroy bones.A twisted fact, deliberately tainted, has terrible power.

On the night of February 1933, 2, people in Berlin, the capital of Germany, were eating and resting at home.Suddenly, a red light illuminated the night sky. "The Capitol is on fire!" As people in the street shouted in panic, puffs of smoke rose from the windows and roof of the Capitol.Then, the flames also jumped out.

A few minutes later, German Chancellor Hitler and Nazi Party Propaganda Minister Goebbels had arrived at the scene, and Reichstag Speaker Goering arrived earlier than them.Göring was sweating on his head, gasping for breath, waving his fists, and shouted: "The Communist Party did it! The Communist Party's revolution has begun! We can't sit still for a minute. We will deal with them mercilessly, Catch and kill them! Hang all the Communist Party members tonight!" Hitler said to the foreign reporters present with a gloomy face: "This is God's instruction, we must destroy the Communists!"

That same night, the German government issued a circular, insisting that the Communists set fire to the Reichstag, and claimed that a Dutch Communist named Lubo had been captured on the spot.

Hitler wanted to use this to make a big fuss.His government immediately announced that in order to deal with the "violence" of the Communists, it would stop implementing the clauses in the constitution guaranteeing personal and civil liberties, restrict personal liberties, restrict freedom of expression, press, association and assembly, and restrict mail, telegrams, telephone An inspection may be conducted to search the residence and seize property.As soon as this decree was announced, the whole of Germany immediately became tense and fell into a state of shocking terror.

Obviously, this has been planned for a long time.At that time, the economic crisis had just passed, and the German Communist Party had a high prestige among the German people, and it also fought the most resolutely against fascism, becoming a thorn in Hitler's side.In order to prevent the Communists from winning the election and further controlling the country, the Fascists created public opinion against the Communist Party.It was in this situation that the Congressional arson case occurred.

After the incident, the Nazi Party claimed over and over again that the incident was made by the Communist Party.The kind-hearted German people were deceived, and their favorability for the Communist Party was reduced by more than half.Therefore, when the Gestapo arrested and killed people everywhere, and more than 18 Communist Party members were arrested and imprisoned, the people did not show much sympathy.

After the Communist Party was banned, Hitler's Nazi party's goal of controlling the country was quickly achieved.Beginning in 1933, Germany began open war preparations.Hitler's crazy shouts spread to every corner of the country, flags with the Iron Cross fluttered everywhere, and the whole of Europe was shrouded in terror before the war.

Wisdom Interpretation:

Goebbels, the propaganda minister of the Nazi Party, said a famous saying: "A lie that is repeated a thousand times becomes the truth." If others want us to accept an untrue thing, they will continue to strengthen our consciousness. We may go from not believing to doubting, and then to believing or even believing.

The Chinese idiom often said that "three people become a tiger" is actually a psychological process. If we limit ourselves to other people's lies, we will inevitably be easily fooled.Therefore, the best way to deal with this kind of trick is to broaden your horizons and jump out of the frame that lies limit us.Always look down on it from top to bottom, and search carefully to maintain your own independent judgment.

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