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...was started by a lone perpetrator or staged by the #NSDAP itself, they exploited the process politically by blaming the #Communists. Already the day after the fire, the #communist press and for two weeks the press of the SPD were also banned. The offices of the #KPD were closed and deputies and functionaries were taken into "protective custody". On the same day, the Reichstag Fire Ordinance [#Reichtagstagsbrandverordnung] was...