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Reichstag|ˈraɪçʃtaːk, ˈraɪkstɑːg|
[Ger., f. gen. sing. of Reich + tag diet: cf. Bundestag.]
The diet or parliament of the German Empire (1871–1918) (formerly also, that of the North German Confederation) and of post-Imperial Germany until 1945; the building in Berlin in which this parliament met. Also transf.
1867Times 3 Jan. 10/1 It is proposed to exclude Government functionaries, not from the future Diet of the Confederation (Reichstag), but only from the Parliament which is about to assemble. 1870Geo. Eliot Let. 3 Apr. (1956) V. 87 We went to the Reichstag one morning, and were so fortunate as to hear Bismarck speak. 1889M. S. Van de Velde Cosmopolitan Recollections I. v. 167 Will he attend the Reichstag? 1909M. A. von Arnim Caravaners xiii. 220 She began to talk to me..about..our Reichstag. 1935C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains xvi. 263 We ought to be grateful to van der Lubbe, because the burning of the Reichstag had melted the snow. 1944J. S. Huxley On Living in Revol. 138 In 1928..the Nazis had secured less than 2 per cent. of the seats in the Reichstag. 1975Times 4 Mar. 1/2 From the Tory benches, there was a claim that the Commons was being turned into a Reichstag.
2. attrib., as Reichstag Fire, a fire which destroyed the Reichstag building on 27 Feb. 1933, believed to have been engineered by the Nazi party in order to facilitate their seizure of power; Reichstag Trial, the subsequent trial of the alleged incendiary, Marinus van der Lubbe, and others; also transf., as the type of a staged trial.
1933Times 1 Mar. 13/2 A communication about the Reichstag fire was issued by the Prussian authorities. 1976S. Hynes Auden Generation v. 143 The Reichstag fire appears as an emblem of public terror.
1968D. Hopkinson Incense Tree xii. 156 The trial was a travesty in the tradition of the Reichstag Trial at Leipzig. 1970Peace News 17 Apr. 8/1 Bobby Seale has been sentenced to four years for contempt of court at Attorney General Mitchell's ‘Reichstag Trial’ in Chicago. |