The Senate Committee inguiry A sensational document bearing the sutcgraph signature of the late!
Chief Group-Leader Karl Ernst, of the Berlin Storm Troops, who was shot dead in Herr Adolf Hitler's Government was handicapped in "clean-up" campaign last June, de~ Internal clares tnat'the Reichstag was set on fire on February 27, 1933, with the connivance of Dr. Joseph ' Goebbels, Gernan Minister of Propaganda, and Gen. Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Premier of Prussia and Reich Minlster of Aviation.
This document, which was publisher in "Lo Journal" to-day, was counter-signed by two confederates of the late Storm Troop leader and sent to a Dr. Branting in Sweden, Ernst forbidding publication unles* he meta violent death.
The document absolves Herr Hitler of all knowledge of the plot. alleges that the Storm Troopers at first had discussed with Dr. Goebbels and Gen. Goering a plan to make 3 pretended attempt on the life of the Reichefuehrer in order to discredit the Communists and strengthen the power of the Nazi party. This plan, however, Was abandoned in favour of setting the Reichstag on fire.
Netherlander Used as Blind Chief Group-Leader Ernst declares in the document that Gen, Goering supplied the phosphorescent material which be (Ernst) carried from the cellars of the Prussian Premier's house te the main hall of the Reich. stag, and which ignited automatically half an hour after it had been applied.
The document states that Marinus van der Lubbe, the _Netherlandc who subsequently was executed, was weal-minded, and he was used as blind, although he believed that he was' acting alone. It had_beea arrarget, declares the late Storm Trooper, that van der Lubbe start a fire in the gallery half an hour after the Storm Troopers on duty in the Reichstag had retired from the building.
'The turning of the Reichstag, and. In the subsequent arrest of van' der shipped Lube and four others, Torgler, exgations, Dimitroft, Popoff and Tanett, who were charged with setting the building afire, created a sensation) {hrot ghent the world.
Tue Leto Chief Group-Leader Ernst} was one of the many Storm Troop] leaders who were brought before fung squad at Hamburg for taking part in an alleged attempt to overthrow Herr Hitler as the Fuehrer—
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