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	Reichstag (building) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, the original parliament of the German Empire.
		The original building was most acclaimed for the construction of an original cupola of steel and glass, a technical masterpiece of the time.
		The building continued to be the seat of the parliament of the Weimar Republic (1919-1933), which was still called Reichstag.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reichstag_(building) (1266 words)

	Reichstag fire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Reichstag fire was a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany.
		The Reichstag fire, a pivotal event in the establishment of Nazi Germany, began at 9:14 PM on the night of February 27, 1933, when a Berlin fire station received an alarm that the Reichstag building, assembly location of the German Parliament, was ablaze.
		As a consequence of the Reichstag Fire Decree, the police and the SA, actually a paramilitary organization of Hitler's party, seized all Communist Party buildings in Germany, along with weapons they claimed were to be used in the coup.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reichstag_fire (1773 words)

	Reichstag - German parliament - Reichstag Fire and Trial in Leipzig 1933
		The Reichstag of 919 in Fritzlar elected the first Saxon prince, Henry the Fowler, king of the Germans (Henry I), thus overcoming the longstanding rivalry between Franks and Saxons and laying the foundation for the German Empire.
		From 1930 on, however, the Reichstag was practically circumvented with the use of the extensive powers that the constitution granted to the President.
		The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed as the seat of the Reichstag in the German Empire and, after a major reconstruction, has been the seat of today's German parliament, the Bundestag, since 1999.
	www.germannotes.com /hist_reichstag.shtml (2007 words)

	Reichstag - The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		REICHSTAG [Reichstag] [Ger.,=imperial parliament], name for the diet of the Holy Roman Empire, for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of the North German Confederation, and for the lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany from 1871 to 1945.
		The new Reichstag, however, was not powerless; it was the supreme legislative body of the republic.
		The Reichstag building in Berlin was redone in the 1960s, deemphasizing most of its former grandeur.
	www.highbeam.com /doc/1E1:Reichstg/Reichstag.html?refid=ip_hf (615 words)

	Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : Reichstag fire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Nazi leaders were determined to demonstrate the Reichstag Fire was a deed of the Comintern, and in early March 1933, three men were arrested who were to play pivotal roles during the Leipzig Trial, known also as "Reichstag Fire Trial," namely three Bulgarians: Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev and Blagoi Popov.
		As a consequence of the Reichstag Fire Decree, the Communist Party of Germany KPD was banned on March 1, 1933, on the grounds that they were preparing a putsch.
		At Nuremberg, General Franz Halder claimed Göring had confessed to setting the fire: "At a luncheon on the birthday of Hitler in 1942, the conversation turned to the topic of the Reichstag building [fire] and its artistic value.
	www.hallencyclopedia.com /Reichstag_fire (1831 words)

	Transparency for the 'New Reichstag' in Berlin
		The most impressive government building to be officially opened in Europe this year is undoubtedly the Reichstag in Berlin, Germany's historic parliament building originally built in 1889 but substantially damaged by fire during the second World War.
		All the laminated glass for the Reichstag dome was fabricated by Bischoff of Aachen, Germany.
		The inspired Reichstag re-design was celebrated as a milestone of European architecture at its official opening in April and makes an impressive setting for the election of the new German president in September 1999 when Germany's parliament will take up official residence there.
	www.dupont.com /safetyglass/lgn/stories/1308.html (601 words)

	The Rise of Hitler - Feb. 27, 1933 The Reichstag Burns
		The Reichstag was the building in Berlin where the elected members of the republic met to conduct the daily business of government.
		The storm troopers, led by SA leader Karl Ernst, used the underground tunnel that connected Göring's residence with the cellar in the Reichstag.
		The deep red glow of the burning Reichstag caught the eye of President Hindenburg and Vice-Chancellor Papen who were dining at a club facing the building.
	www.historyplace.com /worldwar2/riseofhitler/burns.htm (1454 words)

	The World at War
		The Reichstag, seat of parliamentary government in Germany had been in recess since December of the preceding year.
		The great building was quiet and except for a watchman, empty.
		Ten minutes later smoke was observed coming from the building and the first fire alarm was received by the Berlin Fire station.
	worldatwar.net /event/reichstagsbrand (683 words)

	Architecture of the Reichstag - Berlin, Germany
		This led to a series of violent protests which led to the burning of part of the Reichstag building on 27 February, 1933.
		Construction of today's building was held up by land disputes, and delayed so long that the architectural contest had to be held a second time.
		It is said that familiarity breeds contempt, and the politicians who labored in the Reichstag's halls had become too familiar with their surroundings.
	www.glasssteelandstone.com /DE/BerlinReichstag.html (1203 words)

	Berlin.de: Sights: Reichstag Building
		At a height of 75 metres on the lantern, and thus above the whole parliamentary building, was an emperor's crown.
		In the Reichstag fire on 28.2.1933 the interior, and especially the plenary chamber, were partly destroyed.
		As from April 1999, the Reichstag building is the official seat of the German parliament.
	www.berlin.de /tourismus/sehenswuerdigkeiten.en/00121.html (520 words)

	Tourist Information - VLDB 2003
		The Reichstag is the seat of the German Bundestag or federal government and, with its new dome, one of the Berlin's biggest crowd-draws in Berlin.
		The Reichstag was constructed from 1884—94 by Paul Wallot, since a representative building was needed to house the parliament of the newly-founded German state.
		The original square was a crossroads which, after the building of the train station Potsdamer Bahnhof, became one of the busiest junctions in Europe and a synonym for the pace of life in the capital.
	www.vldb.org /conf/2003/homepage/new_berlin.html (2119 words)

	Reichstag- Berlin, Germany - VirtualTourist.com
		The building was again the stage of huge drama, when 12 years later the Soviets beat the British and Americans to the prize, and finished off the German resistance in the Storming of the Reichstag.
		Reichstag was built after the founding of the German Empire in 1872, when a large parliamentary building was needed.
		The building was even further damaged at the end of the WWII but it also became a symbol of Hitler's defeat with the famous picture of a Red Army Soldier raising the Soviet flag on top of it.
	www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Germany/Land_Berlin/Berlin-75302/Things_To_Do-Berlin-Reichstag-BR-1.html (1507 words)

	The Reichstag Fire, 68 years on
		According to Nazi propaganda, the Reichstag fire was intended as a signal for a communist uprising that had long been planned—a claim for which there was not a shred of evidence.
		The communists accused by the Nazi authorities at the Reichstag Fire Trial in Leipzig were already ruled out in 1933 for obvious reasons: quite apart from the lack of evidence, the suicidal and thus nonsensical nature of such a deed was self-evident, despite Nazi propaganda to the contrary.
		Before the Reichstag fire broke out, he had been in the subterranean passageway that connects the Reichstag assembly building to the building in which the government apartment of the Reich President [Hermann Göring] is located.
	www.wsws.org /articles/2001/jul2001/reic-j05.shtml (2380 words)

	Reichstag Building, Germany
		The Reichstag, the Imperial Parliament, needed a larger and more prestigious building after having been temporarily housed in part of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Leipziger Strasse.
		The new Reichstag, a huge and elegantly proportioned Neo-Renaissance palace, was designed by Paul Wallot; the foundation stone was laid by the Emperor himself in 1884 and the building completed in 1894.
		The building has a Plenary Chamber seating 650, plus 30 committee rooms and almost 200 office rooms, which are used for meetings of committees of the Bundestag and Bundesrat (the two houses of the German Parliament) and of members of the various political parties.
	www.planetware.com /berlin/reichstag-building-d-bn-brb.htm (489 words)

	The German Reichstag in Berlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After the reunification in October 1990, the Reichstag again took on a different role: Berlin was chosen to be capital again and it was decided that the Reichstag should house the German parliament.
		The building had become a symbol of unification and was again at the center of German history.
		This was given to the building´s historical and future significance as the heart of the Republic.
	www.geocities.com /Athens/Cyprus/7002/Reunification.html (354 words)

	Rainy Day Traveler - German Reichstag (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Reichstag, the German Bundestag or parliament building, is an
		The German Reichstag is the symbol of the new unified Germany built on the ruins of the old.
		Except for the outer shell, the building was completely redesigned in the 1990s by British architect Sir Norman Foster to be environmentally and functionally efficient.
	rainydaytraveler.com /RainyDayTraveler/Rainy_Day_BerlinReichstag.htm (691 words)

	Walks through Berlin / Senate Department of Urban Development Berlin
		The design with which Lord Norman Foster won the competition for the remodelling of the Reichstag in 1992 originally envisaged a oversized roof protruding from the Reichstag building onto the Platz der Republik (Square of the Republic) in front of it.
		The Reichstag building was erected to plans by Paul Wallot and officially opened in 1894.
		The Federal Press Conference Building is located to the north of the Reichstag where the Wall once ran along the eastern bank of the River Spree.
	www.stadtentwicklung.berlin.de /bauen/wanderungen/en/s4_reichstag.shtml (431 words)

	Reichstag Dome Berlin by Foster
		The Reichstag was the site of the German reunification ceremonies at midnight on October 2, 1990.
		Foster was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 1999 for his work on the building, which has become one of the top tourist destinations in Berlin.
		The building is very popular, so sometimes a visit involves waiting in line, and it's advisable to arrive early in the day.
	www.galinsky.com /buildings/reichstag/index.htm (452 words)

	Travel Channel community: Reichstag - Berlin, Germany
		The foundation stone for architect Paul Wallot’s Reichstag Building was laid on the June 9, 1884, as construction began on the new home of the Parliament of the German Empire.
		The building was in ruins at the end of the war and the construction of the Berlin Wall alongside it on August 13, 1961 sealed its fate for the next 30 years.
		The heart of the building is the Plenary Chamber where the Parliament sits; the room is transparent on all sides, giving unparalleled views of the inner workings of government to all visitors.
	travelchannel.igougo.com /planning/journalEntryActivity.asp?JournalID=10628&EntryID=39668&n=Reichstag (728 words)

	The Hindu : Reliving history in new-look Reichstag
		What has now been restored, officials emphasise, is the Reichstag building, which houses the two Houses, Bundestag and Bundestat, not the Reich regime, discredited because of its association with disturbing memories.
		The Reichstag fire on the night of February 23, signalled the end of parliamentary democracy in Germany.
		At the border behind the Reichstag building and elsewhere, ``wallpeckers'' claimed pieces of the Wall which came down on November 9.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/2000/05/19/stories/05191349.htm (1034 words)

	The Reichstag was the large domed building in Berlin that was the home of the German Parliament
		The Reichstag, the seat of the German Parliament, is one of Berlin's most historical landmarks.
		The building was even further damaged at the end of the war, when the Soviets entered Berlin.
		After the Reichstag fire the German Parliament was held in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin.
	www.timetravelerproductions.com /REICHSTAG22.htm (322 words)

	Reichstag Fire
		Marinus van der Lubbe was found guilty of the Reichstag Fire and was executed on 10th January, 1934.
		One of the incendiaries, a man aged thirty, was arrested by the police as he came rushing out of the building, clad only in shoes and trousers, without shirt or coat, despite the icy cold in Berlin tonight.
		The entire district from the Brandenburg Gate, on the west, to the River Spree, on the east, is isolated tonight by numerous cordons of police.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /GERreichstagF.htm (1933 words)

	Soviet Flag over the Reichstag Building 1945 (Germany) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stepan Andreyevich Neustroyev was the commander of the battalion that stormed the Reichstag in 1945 and the man who hoisted the flag over the building.
		From this account it becomes clear that the famous photograph [by Khaldei] of [standard-bearers] Egorov and Kantariya planting the Red Flag on the roof of the Reichstag could not have been taken at that historic moment.
		Moreover, the soldiers in the street appear to be moving about quite fearlessly and openly, which they would not have done had fighting still been going on all around them — as it was at the time the banner was first held aloft.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/de1945rt.html (378 words)

	Reichstag \| Berlin \| Travel Story and Pictures from Germany
		Images of Russian soldiers on the roof of the Reichstag are one of the symbols of the defeat of the Nazi's, and the victory of the Allied Forces in World War II.
		For a long time the Reichstag building was there but it never had its former function, inscribed on the frontside of the building: "Dem Deutschen Volke".
		The result is that the building has retained its former grandeur, the main structure is still intact, while on top a cupola of glass and steel has changed its appearance for good: the classical style of the old building has been mixed with the modern, futuristic style of the additions on top.
	www.traveladventures.org /continents/europe/reichstag.shtml (355 words)

	Structurae [en]: Reichstag (1894) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Forced to have its sessions in the nearby Kroll Opera building, the Reichstag takes away its own powers, transfers them to Adolf Hitler and becomes a show parliament for the Führer and the Third Reich without any political weight.
		Renovation of the building and reconstruction of the dome in a new form.
		The Bundestag inaugurates the building in a ceremonial session.
	en.structurae.de /structures/data/index.cfm?id=s0000601 (582 words)

	Reichstag Building
		On 30 October 1991, the Council of Elders of the German Bundestag decided that the Paul Wallot’s historic building should be restored and used as the seat of the new all-German Parliament.
		In ruins after the war, the Reichstag Building had been rebuilt in the 1960s but not for permanent use as a parliamentary building.
		In addition to the Bundestag’s Building Commission, set up to prepare and implement parliamentary decisions in Berlin, the Bundesbaugesellschaft Berlin mbH, a private limited liability company, was created to organize and coordinate the building projects of both Government and Parliament in the Spreebogen area.
	www.bundestag.de /htdocs_e/info/bonntoberlin/reich.html (193 words)

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