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  "title": "Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and the State",
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      "statement": "The Reichstag Fire Decree was passed on February 28, 1933.",
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      "statement": "Adolf Hitler had been appointed Reich Chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg on January 30, 1933.",
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