The "Big Binge" the Germans are celebrating is the Reichstag fire that occurred on February 27, 1933. While it might seem odd to celebrate the torching of the Reichstag, the German parliament building in Berlin that was damaged by the fire, the Nazis might have had good reason to celebrate. The fire was blamed on the Nazis' arch-enemies the Communists, and a former Dutch Communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, was arrested at the Reichstag and convicted and executed for the crime.
Immediately following the Reichstag fire, the Nazi Party, which was consolidating national power, declared what was tantamount to martial law in response to what they alleged was a Communist attempt to overthrow the German government. This accelerated the Nazi takeover of Germany, with repression increasing in the wake of the "Reichstag Fire Decree" Chancellor Adolf Hitler persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to issue. Conventional historians accept that Van Der Lubbe acted alone, although evidence suggests that the Nazis themselves set the fire as a false-flag operation blaming the Communists and enabling the Nazis to seize greater, more repressive control of Germany.
Immediately following the Reichstag fire, the Nazi Party, which was consolidating national power, declared what was tantamount to martial law in response to what they alleged was a Communist attempt to overthrow the German government. This accelerated the Nazi takeover of Germany, with repression increasing in the wake of the "Reichstag Fire Decree" Chancellor Adolf Hitler persuaded President Paul von Hindenburg to issue. Conventional historians accept that Van Der Lubbe acted alone, although evidence suggests that the Nazis themselves set the fire as a false-flag operation blaming the Communists and enabling the Nazis to seize greater, more repressive control of Germany.