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The original Reichstag building was designed in 1884 by architect Paul Wallot. In 1894 the building opened as the Reichstag of the German Empire. After 1918 it became the parliament of the Weimar Republic.
In 1933, the so called Reichstag Fire completely destroyed the plenary chamber. The Dutch Marinus van der Lubbe, a communist, was convicted and sentenced to death. Adolf Hitler used the fire as an excuse to persecute political opponents.
The Reichstag was heavily damaged during the Second World War. Seizing the building was one of the last battles in the conquest of Berlin. Assaulting the iconic building on 30 April 1945, two Soviet soldiers raised the Soviet flag on the Reichstag building. The scene was re-enacted for a propaganda photo on 2 May. The German parliament, the Bundestag, sat in Bonn from 1949 to 1999. After the division of the city, the Reichstag building, which was located in the British sector, soon became a symbol of German unity. For that reason the Bundestag decided to maintain the Reichstag building, which had suffered severe damage during the war.
The Reichstag building, decrepit and ruined, was partially refurbished in the 1960’s. After German reunification, the Bundestag decided to use the building as a seat of parliament again. Since 1994, the buil
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Reichstag building
Seat of the federal parliament of Germany
This article is about the building in Berlin, Germany. For other uses, see Reichstag.
The Reichstag (German: Reichstag, pronounced[ˈʁaɪçsˌtaːk]ⓘ; officially: PlenarbereichReichstagsgebäude[ˈʁaɪçstaːksɡəˌbɔʏdə]ⓘ, lit. 'Imperial Assembly'), a historic legislative government building on Platz der Republik in Berlin, is the seat of the German Bundestag. It is also the meeting place of the Federal Convention, which elects the President of Germany.
The Neo-Renaissance building was constructed between 1884 and 1894 in the Tiergarten district on the left bank of the River Spree to plans by the architect Paul Wallot. It housed both the Reichstag legislature of the German Empire and the Reichstag of the Weimar Republic. The Reich's Federal Council also originally met there. The building was initially used by the Reichstag for Nazi Germany, but severe damage in the Reichstag fire of 1933 prevented further use and the Reichstag moved to the nearby Kroll Opera House. The 1933 fire became a pivotal event in the entrenchment of the Nazi regime. The building took further damage during World War II, and its symbolism made it an important target for the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin.
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