On the 27th of February, 1933, after Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany, the Reichstag ( parliament building ) was burned by an arsonist. The person arrested for this crime by the Nazi controlled police was the German Communist Marinus van der Lubbe. Hitler convinced President von Hindenburg to issue the Reichstag Fire Decree. This gave the police power to arrest all of the Communist members of the Reichstag and mass arrests of Communists nationwide. This gave the Nazi party and their allies, the German National People’s Party, a majority in the lawmaking body.
During the Nuremburg trials; General Franz Halder stated in an affidavit that Hermann Göring had boasted about setting the fire: “On the occasion of a lunch on the Führer’s birthday in 1943, the people around the Führer turned the conversation to the Reichstag building and its artistic value. I heard with my own ears how Göring broke into the conversation and shouted: ‘The only one who really knows about the Reichstag building is I, for I set fire to it.’ And saying this he slapped his thigh”. Wikipedia
An affidavit made in 1955 by Martin Lennings, a former SA member, was uncovered and released in July of 2019. In it he stated van der Lubbe couldn’t have been the arsonist because they arrived together at the Reichstag and it was already burning.
Lennings, who died in 1962, further stated in his account that he and other members of his squad had protested the arrest of Van der Lubbe, “because we were convinced that Van der Lubbe could not possibly have been the arsonist, because according to our observation, the Reichstag had already been burning when we dropped him off there”. He claimed he and the other witnesses were detained and forced to sign a paper that denied any knowledge of the incident. Later, nearly all of those with knowledge of the Reichstag fire were executed. Lennings said that he had been warned and escaped to Czechoslovakia.” Wikipedia
On the 2nd of August that same year, Hindenburg died and Hitler became President in a plebiscite on the 19th. He was for all intents an purposes the dictator of Germany.
The Roman Republic was founded in 509 BCE. Three lawmaking bodies ruled the affairs of the Republic. The Comitia Centuriata passed laws, had the power to declare war, and elected judges. The Consilium Plebis created laws for the plebian class. The Comitia Tributa had judicial powers. The executives of the Republic were two consuls who served for one year and acted as commander in chief of the military and presided over the Roman Senate.
After civil wars in the 1st Century BCE, general Julius Ceasar and his loyal army became very powerful. He refused orders by the Senate to stand down his army and invaded Rome instead. His victory made him dictator for life. After these events the Senate, composed of wealthy elite of Rome, became the supporters of successive Emperors and the royal centralization of power.
By 117 AD the Emperors had expanded the Roman boundaries to it’s territorial height. In the 3rd Century regions began to break away from the Empire. In the 4th century the Barbarian Invasions began that eventually led to the fall of the Western Empire.
The Nazis did not create Germany, they infiltrated the nation and took over. The Emperors of Rome, worshiped as gods, didn’t create Rome. Constantine I, who had his son Crispus murdered, settled in the Eastern Empire – Constantinople. He favored Orthodoxy over the Catholic Church. The “gods” destroyed the Western Empire on their way out.