PREFACE: The term ‘conspiracy theory (CT) is often used to attack the credibility of an explanation of a key event. If, for example, a conservative says the 2020 Presidential election was decided by widespread, fraudulent, voter manipulation, a liberal will call the conservative a "conspiracy theorist".  But a ‘conspiracy theorist' can be a critical thinker who applies knowledge, wisdom and proven instinct in the search for truth beyond and beneath conventional wisdom.    The subtitle of a relatively recent book tells the history of understanding a key event in Nazi Germany: "Burning the Reichstag: An Investigation into the Third Reich's Enduring Mystery," by Benjamin Carter Hett, Oxford Press, 2014.   After eighty-eight years since it happened, the question of who burned the Reichstag, and why, remains unanswered, and a soft debate in print continues among the best and most oft read historians of the Nazi era.  What follows relies on a recent and detailed examination of the flames that fueled the Third Reich. Benjamin Hett's conclusions will be cited at the close.

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