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Restored Façade<br />
Despite extensive<br />
renovations, small bullet<br />
holes from World War II<br />
are still visible in the<br />
building’s façade.<br />
Restaurant Käfer<br />
This luxury restaurant next to the cupola on the<br />
Reichstag’s roof offers an excellent view of the historical<br />
centre of Unter den Linden. It is very popular<br />
and you may well have to wait for a seat (see p101).<br />
The German Flag<br />
The giant German<br />
flag was first raised on<br />
the occasion of the official<br />
national celebrations<br />
of German reunification<br />
on 3 October 1990.<br />
Platz der Republik<br />
Celebrations often<br />
take place on the lawn in<br />
front of the Reichstag,<br />
most recently in 1996,<br />
when the building was<br />
wrapped up by Christo.<br />
Memorial for Victims of the Wall<br />
Opposite the southern side of the Reichstag,<br />
a memorial recalls the Berlin Wall, which ran only<br />
a few steps away from this spot. One of the<br />
crosses commemorates Chris Gueffroy: shot in<br />
February 1989 when trying to escape, he was<br />
one of more than 100 people who died at the Wall.<br />
Berlin governmental buildings see pp40–1<br />
Installation<br />
“Der Bevölkerung”<br />
Hans Haacke’s work of<br />
art “To the People” is a<br />
counterpoint to the portico<br />
inscription opposite.<br />
Memorial by<br />
Dieter Appett<br />
Unveiled in 1992, the<br />
memorial commemorates<br />
97 Social Democratic and<br />
Communist Reichstag<br />
delegates who were<br />
murdered under the<br />
Third Reich.<br />
The Reichstag<br />
Fire<br />
When the Reichstag<br />
went up in flames on<br />
27 February 1933, the<br />
Dutch Communist van<br />
der Lubbe was arrested<br />
and charged with arson.<br />
It is, however, much<br />
more likely that the<br />
Nazis had started the<br />
fire themselves. Adolf<br />
Hitler used the Reichstag<br />
fire as a pretext<br />
to get the “Enabling<br />
Act” passed by parliament.<br />
This allowed him<br />
to dispose of all his<br />
opponents, marking the<br />
beginning of a 12-year<br />
reign of terror.<br />
Berlin’s Top 10<br />
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