#Reichstag building

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Berlin: Reichstag Building

Keltin is a huge history nerd and one of the things that he particularly wanted to do in Berlin was to tour the Reichstag building or more specifically the dome. This is an actively used government building that houses the German Parliament. It is free to visit but visitors do have to pre-register and bring their ID for verification when visiting. Pre-WWII (VERY) Brief History Construction on…

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Gebt dem deutschen Volke Bagger by Pascal Volk

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Reichstag Building (Reichstagsgebäude), Berlin, Germany.

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Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany

German vintage postcard, mailed in 1909 to Paris

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Berlin is a city that never sleeps, but it’s also one of the most popular travel destinations in Europe! The city center of Berlin is where you’ll find most of the main sights, like the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag building.

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West Berlin 1980. The Reichstag building had been restored after World War II, but had no government function at this date. It housed a permanent exhibition on German history, and a restaurant for visitors and tourists. The Berlin Wall ran directly behind it, which can just be seen on the right in my photograph.

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my personal headcanons (not really founded in any canon events i just think they’re neat)

- isaac has only sisters and has picked up habits from them. most common: when he’s searching for something, he always grabs his moobs

- everyone else has picked up the habit, so whenever someone loses something in the locker room they all grab their moobs and search

- moe is banned from the reichstag building in germany (nobody knows why and nobody dares ask how)

- dani collects squishmellows, brings a different one to each away game

- jan and richard have keys to each others places and it’s not a surprise if they come home and the other is eating their snacks

- thierry sleep talks, the team has a running challenge to see who can make him say the craziest shit before he walks up

- beard can (and frequently does) sleep standing up, scares the shit out of everyone

- rene (sewer man) knows the underground, but somehow will the kitman found a way into the building through the vents

- moe got an online certification to be ordained, whenever the team drinks he always tries to marry people off

- roy’s got his yoga moms, and jamie’s in a book mom club. they meet every sunday and read anything from hardcore porn to the classics

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it took until exactly halfway through the Reichstag audio tour for them to proudly proclaim that the heat source for the building is good clean biodiesel. Germany!

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On this day, 9 November 1918, in Berlin, the workers and soldiers of German’s capital delivered the death blow to the Kaiser regime. The previous night, members of an illegal group of revolutionary workers, the Revolutionary Stewards, had called for a general strike in the capital. At 8 AM thousands took to the streets, some carrying weapons, others signs declaring: Peace, Freedom, Bread, Socialism. The government ordered the military to stop the uprising, but by 10:15 am almost all regiments in the city took the side of the people. More and more people marched towards the government area. Soldiers threw their weapons into the Spree river. With no word from the Kaiser in Belgium, the Chancellor Max von Baden handed over his job to Friedrich Ebert, the head of the Social Democratic Party (SPD). Ebert’s first official act was signing a flyer in which he urged the “fellow citizens” to leave the streets and go home. Ignoring his message, thousands surrounded the police headquarters. When the anti-war activist Emil Eichhorn knocked at the door to ask the authorities to hand over the building, the police threw their pistols and sabres into the courtyard and left. The demonstrators then freed 650 political prisoners and raised a red flag from the roof. The SPD politician, Philipp Scheidemann, learned that Karl Liebknecht, the revolutionary, planned to declare a socialist republic. So at 2 pm, Scheidemann proclaimed at the Reichstag a “Social Republic.” At 4:30 pm, Liebknecht declared a “Free Socialist Republic.” A few hours later, he was invited to join the new government but he declined, instead demanding “All power to the Workers’ Councils.” While Ebert formed a government, the Revolutionary Stewards had other plans: to establish a republic of councils. In our online store we have a book with more info about the Revolution, and it's also celebrated by our T-Shirt of the Month, made by a workers coop: https://shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/all/german-revolution https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2130274113824394/?type=3

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Soviet IS-2 heavy tank outside the Reichstag building in Berlin 1945.

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Back from our mini-break to Berlin 🇩🇪

Pics from the top: Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag building (the government building - we walked all the way to the top of that central glass dome on the roof), Victory Column, remnant of the Berlin Wall, Checkpoint Charlie, Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

On day 1, we took a 6 hour guided bike tour around the city, which was totally the best way to see all the major sites as Berlin is quite a spread out city. We were away with five of our friends and we all absolutely loved this. It gave us a great overview and our guide told us lots of the history too. The photos show some of the places we saw.

On day 2, we started early and went up the dome of the Reichstag building and learnt about its history. Then we went to the Stasi museum and then the Stasi prison. Wow, I learnt so so much about life in East Berlin under Soviet rule. All those spy gadgets you read about in James Bond actually existed here, hidden cameras in ties and bags, listening devices planted in walls of rooms, members of your own family could be informing on you. The prison tour was so moving, many of the guides had been inmates there until as recently as 1989 when the prison closed down (I find it absolutely mind blowing that all this happened so recently). When the wall came down and East and West Germany reunified, all the prison staff, psychiatrists and doctors were granted immunity from prosecution so they went on to continue practising therapy and medicine for the general population, even though they had been involved in performing extreme psychological torture in the prison interrogation rooms. There were at least as many interrogation rooms than there were cells, so that tells you what went on day and night in that prison. The guides asked that we didn’t share photos of the prison on social media as they don’t want it glorified in any way.

On day 3, we went to the Topography of Terror, where we learnt more about the Nazi party, how they came into power and brought in their ideologies. Then we had to head to the airport to catch our flight home.

Berlin is a really fascinating city with so much history that it doesn’t shy away from but lays out for everyone to learn from.

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If walls could speak

If walls could speak

When the German Empire was founded in 1871, a decision was made to build a building to house the parliament that was to govern the newly formed country. Like so many grand projects, it took its time to decide, plan and then execute such a construction project. It took 23 years in total and in 1894 the Reichstag was formally opened. From the outside, only the obscured glass dome indicates the…