Reichstag Building is ranked #2 out of 20 things to do in Berlin. ... It was then bombed during World War II and didn't become the seating house of government again until 1999, ...

The idea of wrapping the Reichstag in Berlin was born back in 1971 -- in the middle of the Cold War. At the time, the Reichstag stood right next to the Berlin Wall. It was a symbolic building, but ...

Famed during the War as a Commander of the late Baron von Richthofen’s Flying Squadron, Speaker Goering mounted the tribune with militant jerkiness, replied with a Fascist salute to the salutes ...

THEN: The Reichstag building in 1933, which housed Germany's parliament in Berlin. ... The building's history dates back to the 1400s, but was badly damaged during World War II.

Throughout the week colorful personalities abounded in the Reichstag as concluding arguments for and against the Locarno Treaties drew to a close. Klara Zetkin, 68-year-old and rejuvenated* ...

There are however, specific and isolated events during that period that can warn us today. One such occurred in Berlin, exactly 92 years ago: the Reichstag fire of Feb. 27, 1933.

Originally built to house the parliament of the German Empire, the Reichstag was controversial before it even began construction. When the competition to design the building was announced in 1871 ...

On the night of Feb. 27, 1933, an arsonist attacked the Reichstag, Germany's historic parliamentary building. It was a critical moment in the country's collapse from democracy to dictatorship.