On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, an arsonist attacked the Reichstag, Germany’s historic parliamentary building. It was a critical moment in the country’s collapse from democracy to dictatorship. Today, ...

The horrific assassination of right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk seems to be offering the Trump administration its own Reichstag fire.

On February 27, 1933, the Reichstag, or German Parliament building, burned down. This was less than a month after Adolph Hitler took power as Germany's Fuhrer. Hitler and his Nazi Party used the fire ...

I’m always troubled when politicians or commentators attempt to link the authoritarianism of the Trump administration to 1930s Germany. The years that led to the Holocaust were unique in modern ...

Is Kirk’s death new Reichstag fire? The German Reichstag fire in 1933, used by Adolf Hitler as a pretext for suspending civil liberties, led to the Nazification of Germany and World War II. Flash ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Turkey's failed coup and President Tayyip Erdogan's subsequent purges of state institutions are reminiscent of the Reichstag fire in Nazi Germany and its use by Hitler to amass ...