The Leipzig Trial, also known as the Reichstag Fire Trial, took place from 21 September to 23 December 1933. It involved Ernst Torgler (a German Communist), Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev and Blagoi Popov (Bulgarian Communists) and Marinus van der Lubbe (a Council Communist). See
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“In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)