On Feb. 27, 1933 the German Parliament building burned, Adolf Hitler rejoiced, and the Nazi era began. Hitler, who had just been named head of a government that was legally formed after the democratic elections of the previous November, seized the opportunity to change the system. “There will be no mercy now,” he exulted. “Anyone standing in our way will be cut down.”
Timothy Snyder: The Reichstag warning
German Nazi chancellor Adolf Hitler (C) receives an ovation from the Reichstag and members of parliament who give him the nazi salute, for the Anschluss with Austria, the "peaceful" acquisition of Austria, in March 1938 in Berlin.
