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  2. Reichstag Fire Decree - Wikipedia

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    Das Andere Deutschland's final issue, announcing its own prohibition (Verbot) by the police authorities on the basis of the Reichstag fire decree. The Reichstag Fire Decree (German: Reichstagsbrandverordnung) is the common name of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State (German: Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat) issued by German ...

  3. February 1933 - Wikipedia

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    Hours after the Reichstag building had been set afire, Chancellor Adolf Hitler and his Cabinet of Ministers drew up an emergency decree for President Paul von Hindenburg to sign under Article 48 of the German constitution. "Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State" took effect immediately upon the President's ...

  4. Reichstag fire - Wikipedia

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    Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was the culprit; the Nazis attributed the fire to a group of Communist agitators, used it as a pretext to claim that Communists were plotting against the German government, and induced President Paul von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree suspending civil liberties, and pursue a ...

  5. Article 48 (Weimar Constitution) - Wikipedia

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    Claiming that the fire was the first step in a Communist revolution, the Nazis used the fire as a pretext to induce President Hindenburg to sign the Reichstag Fire Decree, officially the Presidential Decree for the Protection of People and State (Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat). [14]

  6. Enabling Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

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    Using this justification, Hitler persuaded Hindenburg to enact the Reichstag Fire Decree. [4] The decree abolished most civil liberties, including the right to speak, assemble and protest, and the right to due process. Using the decree, the Nazis declared a state of emergency and began a violent crackdown against their political enemies. [5]

  7. Germans in the Philippines - Wikipedia

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    German settlement in the Philippines began during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines when the German Empire attempted to acquire the Philippines. This article also refers to the choice of Filipino citizenship and/or settlement in the Philippines by persons of either pure or mixed German descent who continued to reside in the country for a significant number of years or decades.

  8. Category:Decrees - Wikipedia

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    Rambouillet Decree; Decreet of Ranking of 1606; Reichstag Fire Decree; Rosetta Stone decree; Royal Decree 56 of 2002; Royal Decree of 27 July 1887; Royal Decree of Graces of 1815; Rule by decree; Decree of the President of Russia

  9. Law on imposition and enforcement of the death penalty

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    The Reichsgesetzblatt of 31 March 1933: Law on the Imposition and Execution of the Death Penalty. Law on imposition and enforcement of the death penalty (known colloquially as Lex van der Lubbe) was a German law enacted by the Nazi regime on 29 March 1933, that imposed the death penalty for certain crimes such as arson and high treason, that had formerly meant whole life imprisonment.