27 February: Fire, Ice and Holding the Temperature

Reichstag On this date in 1933, the Reichstag in Berlin burned. Even stating that fact can feel like an invitation to Godwin’s Law — the tendency for conversations to drift toward the most extreme comparisons in modern history. The Reichstag fire is a flashpoint: literal flames, political heat, and a turning point that accelerated catastrophe. […]

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