Ninety-two years ago today, on September 21, 1933 (August 2, 1933), the "Reichstag arson trial" was held. On September 21, 1933, the Reichstag arson trial finally began in Leipzig. The president of the court, Bönger, was a veteran of many political cases tried during the Weimar Republic. In a 235-page indictment, the German Supreme Prosecutor's Office named five defendants: van der Lube; Tograd, the head of the German Communist Party's parliamentary corps; and Gege Dimitrov, Bobov, and Tanev, the leaders of the Bulgarian Communist Party. The indictment argued that the arson was the result of a joint plan by the five defendants, in accordance with the will of the Communist International and the German Communist Party, although the executor was only Lube. In the courtroom, the defendants, led by the Bulgarian Communist Party leader Dimitro, fought valiantly against fascism and tried to defend themselves within the law, using the law as their weapon. The first was Lube's interrogation in the courtroom. "Why set fire to the Reichstag?" the president asked. "Because I think that by doing so, the working class in Germany will rise up." Lube replied in a low voice. "Are you a Communist?" Lube shook his head. "No, the Communist Party has lost the revolutionary spirit, and they have no courage to fight." "Did anyone else set the fire with you?" "No, I did it alone." The police who arrested Lube also testified to the court that no party documents were found on him. This fundamentally denied the idea that Lube was a Communist. Lube appeared in court with glazed eyes, expressionless face, disheveled hair, and answered questions in silence or on drugs, often full of contradictions. Dimitrov raised suspicions that he was a dementia patient, but the court deliberated that Lube was not a mental patient and had the ability to testify. During the trial, Dimitrov asked whether the court had investigated the unknown citizen who first called the police, because the police station did not register as required, but the president Buenge forced Dimitrov to withdraw from the court, ignoring the question. Dimitrov insisted in the subsequent court session that Lube publicly state whether he had seen him and knew him. Lube replied that he had neither met nor known him. At the same time, because Tograd denied meeting Lube in the parliamentary chamber on the afternoon of the crime, the court investigated Tograd's relationship with Lube in the public trial. Lube was silent at first, then said: "No, I didn't see him." Denied this evidence. Then, the Capitol guard Winter testified in court that Tograd and Kainen walked out of Portal 5 at 8:30 p.m., and that it was not them but a Nazi lawmaker who went out at 10 p.m. He mistook the question at the scene, believing that his question was "what time was the last time someone left the Capitol." This reduced suspicion of Tograd, but the court did not pursue the Nazi lawmaker. Dimitrov carefully studied the indictment's arson sequence about Lube and found that Lube's whereabouts in the Capitol were chaotic and illogical. Because Lube had only 20 minutes from arson to before and after his arrest, he ran back and forth in the wide Capitol, setting more than 20 fires, which was almost impossible. Moreover, from Lube's fire in the Capitol to his arrest in just three or four minutes, it caused a big fire. Obviously, these questions can only be answered if they are assumed to be the crimes of several prisoners. This was also confirmed by the investigation of the special committee. After investigation, it was found that the prisoners who set fire to the Capitol used fuel, and that one person set fire to so many places was not enough time. But how did the other prisoners escape from the Reichstag? It was almost impossible for Communist Party lawmakers to bring fuel into the Reichstag because of the strict surveillance and tracking, which has been a mystery in the court investigation. As the court investigation deepened, the alleged testimony of the defendants who had met in the Communist Party parliamentary room on the day of the crime was also discredited, thus refuting this evidence. Through exchanges with Nazi leaders Goering and Goebbels, Dimitrov also pointed out from a political point of view that the arson was contrary to the party's program at the time and was not in line with the party's interests, thus smashing attempts to blame the Communist International and the German Communist Party. In this way, due to the arguments of the defendants, especially Dimitrov, and the great pressure of the world rescue movement, the court finally had to acquit the four communist defendants except Lube by hanging. Although the case has been closed, the court verdict also left many questions, and the truth of the case has not been clarified. Comments: On this day in 1933, Nazi Germany began the Reichstag arson trial, which was a landmark in a country with a constitution, an important step in the dictatorship of the elected country.