FALSE FLAG OPERATION (1933): Sturmabteilung (SA; the para-military wing of the Nazi Party) agents, under orders from Hermann Goring, Interior Minister of Prussia, set fire to the Reichstag (parliament) Building, and then frame Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch communist, for the arson.

       Postscript: The next day President Paul von Hindenburg issued the Reichstag Fire Decree, suspending civil liberties and allowing the arrest of communists.

       NOTES:

• A false flag operation is a clandestine action usually carried out by a group with an agenda, done in such a way to mislead a population into believing it is being done by someone else.
• In the opinion of history, and of the editors and writers, we are forced to agree on prima facie evidence alone that this is a False Flag incident at least in the military way.

       [restored 7/2/2022] Thanks to Jim Lorenz and Bill Holmes for this entry.