Reichstag

[ rahyks-tahg; German rahykhs-tahk ]

/ ˈraɪksˌtɑg; German ˈraɪxsˌtɑk /

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noun German History.

the lower house of the parliament during the period of the Second Reich and the Weimar Republic.

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Origin of Reichstag

<German: Reich diet

Words nearby Reichstag

Reichsbank, Reichsführer, reichsmark, reichspfennig, Reichsrat, Reichstag, Reichstein, reichsthaler, Reichswehr, Reid, Reidsville

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How to use Reichstag in a sentence

Despite decades of investigation and scholarship, no one knows who is actually responsible for the Reichstag fire.
Candace Owens compared the Capitol insurrection to the Reichstag fire. Here’s why that’s absurd.|Gillian Brockell|April 7, 2021|Washington Post
Indeed, Hitler vowed in a speech to the Reichstag that he would honor the Dutch stance.
Anne Frank’s Amsterdam|Russell Shorto|October 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A motley majority in the Reichstag not only accepts, but improves upon his protectionist demands.
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In fact, the political parties in the Reichstag are generally directly descended from the older Prussian parties.
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This, had it been retained, would have destroyed the coherence of the Reichstag as representative of the whole nation.
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His protest was supported by a considerable number of his former subjects, who formed a party in the Reichstag.
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In 1874 they secured nine seats in the Reichstag, in 1877 twelve, and nearly 500,000 votes were given to Socialist candidates.
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British Dictionary definitions for Reichstag

Reichstag

/ (ˈraiksˌtɑːɡ, German ˈraiçstak) /

noun

Also called: diet (in medieval Germany) the estates or a meeting of the estates

the legislative assembly representing the people in the North German Confederation (1867–71) and in the German empire (1871–1919)

the sovereign assembly of the Weimar Republic (1919–33)

the building in Berlin in which this assembly met and from 1999 in which the German government meets: its destruction by fire on Feb 27, 1933 (probably by agents of the Nazi government) marked the end of Weimar democracy. It was restored in the 1990s following German reunification

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