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Radio Record, Volume XI, Issue 1, 10 July 1936, Page 30

BURNING A FLAG BIRNING OF THB REICHSTAG FLAG" is a book which should be widely read It will be devoured by not only the ardent followers of Dimitroff; but by all who want to learn more about the actual facts of the burn- ing of the Reichstag Flag: This book contains copies of the documents pre- pared by Dimitroff in conducting his political defence, during his imprison- ment before the trial, during the trial itself and before and after his deporta- tion from Germany. Opinions are also given from articles published after his release. Dimitroff states that he is in favour of the proletarian revolution and the dictatorship of the proletariat. He is frmly convinced that that is the only way out 0f, the only salvation from, the economic crisis and the catastrophe of war under capitalism_ The fight for the dictatorship of the proletariat and for the victory of Communism, is with- out any doubt the whole substance of his life_ "With the burning of the Reichstag Flag I had absolutely nothing whatever to do, either directly O1 indirectly_ says Dimitroff; sWhen early in the morning of February 28, 1933, in the train to Munich from Berlin, I read in the papers about the burning of the Reichstag, I immediately took the view that the instigators of this action were either despicable provocateurs Or men- tally and politically demented people, and in any case, criminals in relation to the German working class and to Communism_ 9} Dimitroff labels van der Lubbe 'the Reichstag incendiary) a crazy revolu- tionary. "Burning of the Reichstag Flag:' 99 Com- piled with explanatory notes by Alfred Kurella Translated by Dona Torr and Michael Davidson: Iilustrated: Victor Gollancz Ltd in association with Martin Lawrence Ltd.