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Reichstag Berlin
Reichstag was the location of the Imperial Diet of the Imperial German Empire. Later it was the parliament of the "Weimarer Republik", the German republic between the first and the second world war. Since 1994 all Federal Conventions to the election of the German president are hosted there. Since 1999 the Reichstag is the site of the Lower House of German Parliament.
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The building of the Reichstag was finnished in December 1894. The building costs amounted 23 348 000 Mark which were paid from the reparations, which France had to pay after their lost war against Germany in 1870/71.
4 weeks after Adolf Hitler was nominated to the Chancellor of the Empire, the building of the Reichstag was in flames. A Dutch communist was accused for the act of incendiarism. The Nationalsocialist Party used this incident to activate the authorization law, which allowed them to expand their power in Germany.
