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reichstag
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What does reichstag mean?
proper noun
- The building in Berlin that houses the Bundestag of modern Germany.
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proper noun
- (historical) The lower chamber of the federal parliament of Germany until 1945; the building that housed it.
- (historical) The diet of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Thus, quoting from reference to the military discussion before the main committee of the Reichstag.
In Germany the Socialist party became the strongest faction of the Reichstag, and, in spite of differences of opinion among its members, it preserved its formal unity with that instinct for military discipline which characterizes the German nation.
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The writer sat in the visitors' gallery of the Reichstag when the Socialists were protesting against the torturing of miserable Herreros in Africa, and he heard the deputies of the Holy Father's political party screaming their rage like jaguars in a jungle night.
Robert Blatchford's stirring pamphlets were in everyone's hands, and a reception given by Karl Marx's daughter, Mrs. Aveling, to Liebknecht before he returned to Germany to serve a prison term for his lese majeste speech in the Reichstag, gave us a glimpse of the old-fashioned orthodox Socialist who had not yet begun to yield to the biting ridicule of Bernard Shaw although he flamed in their midst that evening.