Word: reichstag
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...expertise and power to pull off such a precision bombing? Who has the resources and power to cover it up, and who, in fact, is covering it up? We all know the answers to that and it has nothing to do with the militia. This is the Reichstag all over again...
...else could have imagined. Only a year ago, on July 1, 1990, monetary union made the Federal Republic and the Democratic Republic a single economic zone. Three months later, on Oct. 3 -- henceforth to be the national day -- the raising of the black, red and gold flag above the Reichstag in Berlin made Germany a single political entity. It should have ushered in a prolonged period of rejoicing, a time for rebuilding...
...stroke of midnight on Oct. 3, a mammoth black, red and gold flag rose in front of the floodlit Reichstag in Berlin, signifying that 41 years after its division, there was again one Germany. "We want to serve peace in a united Europe and the world," proclaimed President Richard von Weizsacker...
...unification became inevitable. But the date that will be celebrated in the future Germany comes this week, Oct. 3, when the Freedom Bell in West Berlin's Schoneberg city hall tolls and the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany is raised in front of the 96-year-old Reichstag building. At that moment, the German Democratic Republic, a relic of Stalin's postwar empire, ceases to exist...
...persuaded to try the idea of a new conservative coalition: Hitler as Chancellor, Papen as Vice Chancellor, with only two other Nazis in the Cabinet. "In this way," said the non-Nazi Minister of Economic Affairs, "we will box Hitler in." A fatal misjudgment. A month later, the Reichstag was in flames, Hitler was persuading Hindenburg to suspend civil liberties, and the most terrible chapter in 20th century history was about to open...