A long time friend of mine sent me a reference to the Reichstagsbrandverordnung (warning - legal German). How strikingly similar to the US-Patriot act.
This fine piece of legislature (the former) was passed after the Reichstagsbrand (Reichstag fire) on February 27, 1933 (one day).
At least they immediately told you what they were doing in the first paragraph (suspending several articles of the constitution). Maybe some people learned from those mistakes, and veiled their language in the second.
The fifth paragraph then introduces the death penalty on the following crimes: Hochverrat (Treason), Giftbeibringung (Poisoning), Brandstiftung (Arson), Explosion (Blowing Things Up), Überschwemmung (Flooding), Beschädigung von Eisenbahnen (damaging railroads).
This was past 5 years before World War II.
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