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Reichstag
Reichstag (German, ‘imperial parliament’) The legislature of the
GERMAN SECOND EMPIRE and of the Weimar Republic. Its role was confined to legislation, being forbidden to interfere in federal government affairs and having limited control over public spending. Under the Weimar Republic it enjoyed greater power as the government was made responsible to it. On the night of 27 February 1933 the
Reichstag fire occurred.
GOERING and
GOEBBELS allegedly planned to set fire to the building, subsequently claiming it as a communist plot. The arsonist was a half-crazed Dutch communist, Marinus van der Lubbe. The subsequent trial was an embarrassment as the accused German and Bulgarian communist leaders were acquitted of complicity and only van der Lubbe was executed. But the fire had served its political purpose. On 28 February a decree suspended all civil liberties and installed a state of emergency, which lasted until 1945. Elections to the Reichstag were held on 5 March 1933, but by the Enabling Act of 23 March 1933 the Reichstag effectively voted itself out of existence.
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RECLAIMING REICHSTAG
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/5/1990; ; 700+ words
; ...years, Joseph Felder had returned to the Reichstag, to a place where, in 1933, he sat...one of the most potent symbols -- the Reichstag, a large, forbidding gray-stone neo...Renaissance building linked in history with the Reichstag fire that helped bring Adolf Hitler to...
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Christo's Deutsche Mark; Artist Gets Go-Ahead To Wrap the Reichstag
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/26/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Parliament to wrap Berlin's historic Reichstag with 1 million square feet of silver...Bulgarian American artist's "Wrapped Reichstag" project. "If God can be the subject of art, certainly the Reichstag can also be the subject of art...
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Wrapping the Reichstag. (project by artist Christo)
Magazine article from: The Architectural Review; 8/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...withstand rough handling en route, the Reichstag sat in its open field as though Christo...the door of a passing shuttle. Did the Reichstag still exist or would David Copperfield...overcast day made the spiky, wrapped Reichstag look in reality as unreal as Christo...
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Dates in History of the Reichstag
News Wire article from: AP Online; 4/19/1999; ; 427 words
; ...Online 04-19-1999 Dates in History of the Reichstag Some key dates in the history of the Reichstag: ------ 1894: Opens as seat of first...Germany still ruled by Kaiser Wilhelm. Name Reichstag means ``Imperial Parliament.'' 1918...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Sir Norman's Reichstag. (architect Norman Foster)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 2/11/1995; 700+ words
; ...has just begun on his redesign of the Reichstag, the former and future home of the German...engineered architecture. In redesigning the Reichstag, Sir Norman must instead work within...bank, Sir Norman's clients for the Reichstag are wary. As German parliamentarians...
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The Reichstag Takes the Wrap; Artist Christo and Team of `Verticalists' Nip and Tuck Berlin Building
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/18/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...steeplejacks began trussing up the Berlin Reichstag with a million square feet of silver...drizzle had given way to sunshine, and the Reichstag's four corner towers gradually vanished...expected to take four days. The "Wrapped Reichstag" has long had this town atwitter with...
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Out of Germany: Reichstag wrap artist says he'll pack `em in
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 3/3/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...future German parliament, the Reichstag in Berlin. For two weeks in spring...a cost of around pounds 4m, the Reichstag will be covered in 100,000 square...on rebuilding and extending the Reichstag, according to designs by Norman...
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 "Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)")
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Ellison's use of Reichstag fire goes overboard.(NEWS)(Katherine Kersten)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 7/12/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...terror attacks to the burning of the Reichstag, or Pariament building, in Nazi...in 1933. It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that...applauding atheists. After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists...
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 "Weekend Saturday (NPR)")
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Reichstag Building Graffiti
Transcript from: Weekend Saturday (NPR); 9/27/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...future home of the German Parliament, the Reichstag. It's now being renovated. It will...parliamentary democracy collapsed in flames. The Reichstag building still carries some curious marks...reports. DAN CHARLES, REPORTER: The Reichstag is a monumental imperial block in the...
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Reichstag Wrapping Unwinds Uptight Berlin
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/8/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...came down: Christo's wrapping of the Reichstag. Kitsch or art, the shrouding of the...skinheads and leftist anarchists gave the Reichstag a pass. Police reported only 47 thefts...the babel of tongues heard beside the Reichstag, many of the 1.5 million out-of...
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Reichstag
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Reichstag [Ger.,=imperial parliament], name...the German Empire (1871-1918) the Reichstag, which represented the country at large...basis of universal manhood suffrage. The Reichstag under the Weimar Constitution The republican...
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Reichstag Fire
Book article from: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Reichstag Fire (27 Feb. 1933) Less than a month after Hitler's appointment as Chancellor, the German parliamentary building, the Reichstag, burnt down. The balance of scholarly opinion is that the Nazis were...
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Alfred von Tirpitz
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Fleet Act of 1898 through the German Reichstag (parliament), are considered seminal...general of the fleet at the time when the Reichstag established a navy for the German empire...concerns, Kaiser Wilhelm pressed the Reichstag for increasing naval power. Tirpitz...
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Adolf Hitler
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...were elected the largest party in the Reichstag (July, 1932), Hindenburg offered...blamed the Communists for a fire in the Reichstag on Feb. 27, and by fanning anti-Communist...and Nationalists won a bare majority of Reichstag seats in the elections of Mar. 5. After...
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Friedrich Ebert
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...Committee and in 1912 was elected to the Reichstag (Imperial Diet). Here his reputation...1916 he became party floor leader in the Reichstag. A vigorous advocate of peace and an...German Republic; he was reelected by the Reichstag in October 1922. Ebert gave the presidential...
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