Lane Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Installed IronX Reichstag Building What is a Reichstag Building? :confused: Find out what it is? Then decide were I want to keep it Lane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tondu Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Isn't that the building where the seat of Nazi Germany was? The place where Hitler met his henchmen on many different occasions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyD Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 It's more or less the Berlin equivalent of the U.S. Capitol building (especially so with Bush as president ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrapin Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 :mad: To all the comments. Especially the first two. OUCH! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panzer Leader Posted December 12, 2002 Share Posted December 12, 2002 Originally posted by MikeyD: It's more or less the Berlin equivalent of the U.S. Capitol building (especially so with Bush as president )Hee hee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Feldgendarm Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 Okay, just in case someone really has rather strange ideas on what the Reichstag building is... - It was built from 1884 to 1894 to house the parliament of Imperial Germany, which was called Reichstag (Reich Diet). So the building is not a piece of Nazi architecture. - After 1918, the Reichstag building was home to the parliament of the German republic. - In 1933, shortly after the Nazis came to power, the Reichstag building burnt down. Officially, the Communist van der Lubbe had set fire to it. But already in '33, many believed that the Nazis themselves had done it to demonstrate the German public how dangerous the Communists are. - The Reichstag did not serve as parliament building for the Nazi "parliament", neither did Hitler make speeches there. Insteadt, the building remained unrepaired, so it was still half a ruin when the Russians reached Berlin. - No one knows why, but the Russians made every effort to conquer the worthless Reichstag building. During the fighting, the structure suffered heavy damage. - After '45, the ruin, now in the American Sector, was secured provisorically. Between 1961 and the 70s, it was restored as a parliament, but not used as such, since the Western German parliament (Bundestag) was not allowed to meet in West Berlin due to the status of the city. - In the late 90s, the Reichstag building has been completely remodeled by the British architect Sir Norman Foster. It is now the home of the German parliament. It is NOT an Nazi building ... the Nazis had no sympathy for it... Greetings, Feldgendarm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tondu Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 Thanks Feldgendarm for setting the record straight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrapin Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 And, of course, the Nazi's burned the Reichstag. But that's a whole 'nother story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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