Word: reichstager
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...Reichstag was meeting in the Opera House because the central hall of the Reichstag building had been gutted by incendiary fire, a fire that despite popular murmurings the Nazis have persistently blamed on Communists. Because of the fire every Communist deputy was in jail. So the young Nazis' cry was easily answered : The Reichstag passed the Enabling Act 441-94. Adolf Hitler became Dictator of Germany for four years to come...
...Emergency laws need the approval of neither the Reichstag nor the Reichsrat (Federal Council of States). The right of popular referendum on them, expressed in the Weimar Constitution, is specifically set aside...
Though a layman, the 85-year-old President announced that he would "invoke a blessing on the new Reichstag as an act of State," clergymen being for this purpose superfluous...
...crypt under the Garrison Church, now the Reichstag Building, Old Paul proposed to lay a wreath on the tomb of FREDERICK THE GREAT...
...hour session the Reichstag was expected to grant the Government complete dictatorial powers until April 1, 1937, or until the present Reichstag should be replaced by another. Afterwards the Government & Deputies expected to hurry from Potsdam to Berlin for a performance of "Chancellor Hitler's favorite opera," Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Meanwhile, by the Government's express decree, Germans were ordered to light "Liberty Bonfires" and stage torchlight parades throughout the land. About 10 p. m. Nazi Storm Troops and Steel Helmets (War Veterans) were to march in a mighty, triumphal torchlight procession down Unter den Linden...