Reichstag Fire Decree
1933 emergency decree in Nazi Germany suspending civil liberties
Reichstag Fire Decree
The Reichstag Fire Decree (German: Reichstagsbrandverordnung), officially the Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of People and State (German: Verordnung des Reichspräsidenten zum Schutz von Volk und Staat), was an emergency decree issued by Paul von Hindenburg on 28 February 1933, the day after the Reichstag fire and five days before the final elections in the Weimar Republic. Issued under Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, the decree suspended key civil liberties guaranteed by the Weimar Constitution, including personal liberty, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of association, the privacy of postal and telephone communications, and protections against house searches and property confiscation. The decree became one of the central legal foundations of the Nazi dictatorship. It enabled the arrest and imprisonment of political opponents without specific charges, the banning of opposition publications and meetings, and the expansion...
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