Van der Lubbe did not start the reichstag fire. When I was in Berlin, 15 , I bought a book by Fritz Tobias "The reichstag Fire" Legend and truth.
the book proved conclusively(evidence was provided of the 3 german storm troopers who started the fireyears ago, including a deathbed confession by one of them in 1934) that Van Der Lubbe got the blame because it was convenient for both the communists (to label him a matryr) and the nazis so they could crush the communist party. Still amazing that this lie is still peddled by modern historians, who did not have thesame acces to information that Tobias did