Above is a picture of the Reichstag at the end of World War II. Few renovations
were made to the building during the next two decades, as illustrated by the
photograph below, which I took of the Reichstag building in the western half
of divided Berlin in 1969. During the Cold War (i.e., prior to the fall of the Berlin
Wall and the reunification of Germany), Bonn was the capital of West Germany
and the West German parliament — the Bundestag and the Bundesrat — were
based there.
