The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror
January 01, 1970
The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror (German: Braunbuch über Reichstagsbrand und Hitlerterror) is a book published in Paris, France in August 1933. It was written by an anti-fascist group which included German communist Willi Munzenberg, as well as Hans Siemsen and Gustav Regler.[1] It put forth the theory that Nazis were behind the Reichstag fire of February 27, 1933. According to Spanish novelist Antonio Muñoz Molina[2] it was one of the best selling books of all time.
The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror
The book claimed that Ernst Röhm's assistant Georg Bell [de], who was murdered in early 1933 in Austria, had been his pimp and had procured Reichstag arsonist Marinus van der Lubbe for Röhm.[3][4][5] The book claimed that a clique of homosexual stormtroopers led by Heines set the Reichstag fire; van der Lubbe remained behind and agreed to accept the sole blame because of his desperation for affection; Bell was killed to cover it up. There was no evidence for these claims,[6][7] and in fact Heines was several hundred kilometers away at the time.[8] Nevertheless, the matter was so politically explosive that it was aired at van der Lubbe's trial in Leipzig.[3][4] Wackerfuss states that Reichstag conspiracy appealed to antifascists because of their preexisting belief that "the heart of the Nazis' militant nationalist politics lay in the sinister schemes of decadent homosexual criminals".[6]
Göllnitz, Martin (2021). "Homophobie und Revolutionsangst. Die politische Dramaturgie des 30. Juni 1934" [Homophobia and fear of revolution. The political dramaturgy of June 30, 1934]. Revolution in Kiel – Revolutionsangst in der Geschichte [Revolution in Kiel – fear of revolution in history] (PDF). Kieler Schriften zur Regionalgeschichte: Band 8 (in German). Wachholtz Verlag [de]. pp. 209–234. (PDF) from the original on January 16, 2022. Retrieved January 14, 2022.
Rabinbach, Anson (2008). "Staging Antifascism: 'The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror'". New German Critique. 35 (103): 97–126. doi:10.1215/0094033X-2007-021. ISSN 0094-033X. JSTOR 27669222.
Regler, Gustav (1959). The owl of Minerva; the autobiography of Gustav Regler The owl of Minerva; the autobiography of Gustav Regler. London: R. Hart-Davis.
Schwartz, Michael (2019). Homosexuelle, Seilschaften, Verrat: Ein transnationales Stereotyp im 20. Jahrhundert [Homosexuals, Political Cliques, and Betrayal: A 20th Century Transnational Stereotype] (in German). De Gruyter. ISBN978-3-11-063650-5.
Staging Antifascism: The Brown Book of the Reichstag Fire and Hitler Terror, by Anson Rabinbach
The Reichstag Fire Trial, 1933-2008: The Production of Law and History
The Brown Book of the Hitler Terror and the Burning of the Reichstag A HathiTrust full text of the US edition held by the University of Michigan: Alfred A Knopf Inc, NY, 1933.
Brown Book of the Hitler Terror public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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