The typical example from Nazi Germany is the Reichstag Fire (the arson against German parliament) which led to President von Hindenburg's Reichstag Fire Decree following Hitler's advice. The consequences of entering a state of exception may unroll slowly. "Even the original Reichstag Fire was not the Reichstag Fire of our imagination—a singular event that changed the course of history once and for all," Gessen wrote, pointing out that the Second World War did not begin for another six years after the Reichstag burned.