On the night of February 27, 1933, the Reichstag burns, and within weeks Hitler has the emergency powers that end German democracy. This History Hit documentary returns to the arson trial that followed, using surviving trial records and archival footage to ask a question that has never been settled: did the Dutch drifter Marinus van der Lubbe act alone, was he part of a communist plot, or did the Nazis themselves set the fire to justify a crackdown already in motion. The film walks through the physical evidence presented in court, the political pressure on the judges, and the fates of the co-defendants acquitted alongside van der Lubbe's conviction and execution. Historians lay out how the fire became the legal pretext for the Enabling Act and the destruction of the Weimar constitution, tracing the mechanics by which one burning building let a fringe party seize total control. Ninety years on, the documentary treats the arson question as still open, and uses the trial transcripts to show exactly how thin the evidence against any single culprit really was.