THE REICHSTAG FIRE
SOME AWKWARD QUESTIONS. PUT'TO POLICE PRESIDENT. (•Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) Berlin, October 20. Count Helldorf, police president of Potsdam, described as “an absolute invention” the story that he set lire to the Reichstag. He gave evidence that on the night of the fire he was called to a conference of Storm Troops, where the leaders ordered the arrest of leading Communists and Socialists.
Torgler embarrassed the Court by asking whether Count Helldorf’s orders were given in an official or a Storm Troop’s capacity. Count Helldorf eventually answered that they were given on his own responsibility. Answering Dimitroff’s question as to what reason he had to believe that the Communists and Socialists were concerned in the fire, Count Helldorf expressed the opinion that the criminal elements were usually Marxist.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4460, 21 October 1933, Page 5
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133THE REICHSTAG FIRE King Country Chronicle, Volume XXVII, Issue 4460, 21 October 1933, Page 5
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