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Reichstag Fire

I am doing my a level history coursework on the Reichstag fire and we have to consider all schools of thought, intentionalist, structualist and consensus views. However, I am struggling to find any historians who support the structualist view which is the communists started the fire.

Can anyone help?

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Reply 2

ageshallnot

Original post by DanAmos97

Why would structuralist historians think the communists started the fire?

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Hal.E.Lujah

What would be more interesting is how they interpret the significance of the event. They would most likely treat it as indicative of 'a state of exception' (Although have to concede this is a flag of post-structuralism).

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DanAmos97

Original post by ageshallnot

Why would structuralist historians think the communists started the fire?

As that's what they believe

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Hal.E.Lujah

Original post by DanAmos97

As that's what they believe

What do you mean?

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DanAmos97

To gain an advantage in the March 5th elections

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Reply 7

ageshallnot

Original post by DanAmos97

As that's what they believe

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Perhaps we are talking about different groups of historians. To me structuralist historians of the Nazi era believe that events such as the Holocaust came about through the structures of the state rather than via a carefully planned policy, which is the intentionalist view. As such, I cannot see why structuralists would believe that communists caused the reichstag fire.

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