Fill in the Blanks REICHSTAG FIREOnline version Reichstag Fire history and key vocabulary. by Alfonso Poza 1 constitution fire Dutch rights opposition trial Communists legal Reichstag perpetrator legislative election On 27 February 1933 , the building was set on fire . On the night of February 27th Hitler and Goebbels were having dinner at Goebbel's Berlin home . There , Goebbels received a phone call informing him that the Reichstag building was on . Hitler declared that the fire was the work of the and Socialists and the SA was put on alert to maintain order if and when the communist insurrection started . The Nazis captured the alleged of the crime , a communist . The Reichstag ceased all its activities after the fire and it could not be used . The March 5th went ahead as planned but now in the shadow of the ? attempted communist revolt' . The Reichstag Fire Decree suspended basic and allowed detention without . Hitler also engineered the passage of the Enabling Act , which gave his government full powers for a period of four years and allowed deviations from the . Having achieved full control over the legislative and executive branches of government , Hitler and his political allies suppressed the political . On July 14 , 1933 , Hitler's Nazi Party was declared the only political party in Germany .
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