Reichstag Fire Decree
The Reichstag Fire Decree () is the common name of the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State () issued by German President Paul von Hindenburg on the advice of Chancellor Adolf Hitler on 28 February 1933 in immediate response to the Reichstag fire. The decree nullified many of the key civil liberties of German citizens. With Nazis in powerful positions in the German government, the decree was used as the legal basis for the imprisonment of anyone considered to be opponents of the Nazis, and to suppress publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause. The decree is considered by historians as one of the key steps in the establishment of a one-party Nazi state in Germany.
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Paul von Hindenburg
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Adolf Hitler
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Reichstag fire
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civil liberties
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one-party
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Reichstag Fire Decree
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1933-02-28T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
28 February 1933
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