van der Lubbe did nothing wrong and does not deserve this hate. The nazis would have found an excuse to grab power anyway, this just sped it up. Also, “doused in flammable liquids” my ass, he tried setting multiple things on fire including reportedly his own clothes because the building wouldn’t catch. He was one of a small number of heroes who tried to resist the nazis early and gets punished for it because some dipshit tankies wrote a book saying he was gay¹.
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van der Lubbe did nothing wrong and does not deserve this hate. The nazis would have found an excuse to grab power anyway, this just sped it up. Also, “doused in flammable liquids” my ass, he tried setting multiple things on fire including reportedly his own clothes because the building wouldn’t catch. He was one of a small number of heroes who tried to resist the nazis early and gets punished for it because some dipshit tankies wrote a book saying he was gay¹.
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¹https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Brown_Book_of_the_Reichstag_Fire_and_Hitler_Terror
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