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The Volkskammer was the parliament of East Germany. Formally, it was the supreme organ of power in the state, and its only branch of government, with all other state organs subservient to it. In pract
Bundesarchiv Bild 183 1990 0419 418, Berlin, Volkskammer während Regierungserklärung von Lothar de Maiziere
Protester, January 1990
Ballot for the 1990 elections (written text reads "Sample")
The Palace of the Republic was a building in Berlin that hosted the Volkskammer, the parliament of East Germany, from 1976 to 1990.
Volkskammer
…1976, the Volkskammer moved into a specially constructed building on Marx-Engels-Platz (now Schloßplatz, as it was before the birth of the DDR), the Palace of the Republic (Palast der Republik). Prior to this, the Volkskammer met at Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus in the Mitte district of Berlin. Initially, voters in East Berlin…
The Palace of the Republic in July 1990, three months before German reunification
Eastern face of the Palace of the Republic at night in August 1976, shortly after its completion
Erich Mielke, chief of the Stasi, speaking on 25 March 1983 as the club president of SV Dynamo who regularly held parties at the Palace of the Republic
The front façade of the Palace of the Republic in 1986 from Unter den Linden