Karl Marx once remarked: “History repeats itself. First time as tragedy and second time as farce.”
Many decades ago, in 1933, at the beginning of the Nazi era, the Nazis organized what was later proven to be a ploy. They staged an arson attack on the Reichstag building home of the German parliament. In order to make their ploy look legitimate, they decided to try this case in a German court. This infamous trial became known in history as “The Reichstag Fire Trial.”
The Nazis alleged that a Dutch communist Marius Van der Lubbe who set the Reichstag building was a member of the Communist International and that he acted on orders of this international communist organization. In addition to Van der Lubbe, Bulgarian communists Georgi Dimitrov (head of the Communist International), Blagoi Petkov, and Vasil Tanev became co-defendants in this case. The Nazis made every effort to widely publicize this trial to serve their political goals. High Nazi officials, including German