1.1.2 The Reichstag Fire

• After the Reichstag Fire, 4, 000 suspected Communists were arrested during police night raids
• The Reichstag Fire Decree:

  1. Clause 1 suspended individual rights (free speech, protest, arrest without charge, confiscate property) and freedom of press
  2. Clause 2 allowed for greater control over law + order in German states, undermining state governments