Caption

The Reichstag after Allied bombing, end of April 1945 Berlin, Germany Immediately after the end of the Second World War, the last heavily contested Reichstag building stood as a partial ruin in an area marked by rubble. The open spaces around were used by the starving population as plots for growing potatoes and vegetables. On November 22, 1954, the dome was blown up — due to alleged static uncertainty and to relieve the load on the damaged building

Date

May 01, 1945

Credit line

Photo12/imageBROKER/Jewgeni Chaldej/Sammlung E.Volland & H.Krimmer

Reference

BRK26B84_459

Model release

No

Property release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

51.7Mb (2.0Mb) / 17.0in x 11.8in / 5097 x 3543 (300dpi)

Keywords

ruin dome building square city urban nutrition Second World War national socialism history agriculture world war dictatorship parliament politics month Potato vegetable end Berlin German Reichstag Building government Europe cultivation government building property historic agricultural legislative building old town national socialistic damage political capital city food old population extremism extremist insecurity european destroyed fascism dome building debris Bundestag regime contemporary history right-wing extremism ally racism xenophobia static Germany Third Reich Government District surrender Bundestag building November lot Berlin-Mitte right-wing extremist Republic Square cultivate Downtown Central Europe 1939-1945 Nazi regime Historic quarter 3rd Reich End of the war april Ruined building cupola structure place town urban environment World War II NS farming Reichstag Growing plot historical agrarian parliament building historic center grocery uncertainty wrecked rubble German Parliament German Federal Republic Nazi Germany capitulation cultivating Berlin Mitte right-wing Platz der Republik midtown Middle Europe NS-Regime Historic district the dome construction municipal World War 2 WW II WW2 WWII WW 2 historic centre bust German Bundestag racist Republic of Germany Government Quarter city center Nazi dictatorship historic city center broken FRG city centre historic city centre damaged town center historic old town defective Town centre historical old town corrupted Inner city old city Inner town old district Old town area ruins domes buildings squares cities world wars dictatorships parliaments months Potatoes vegetables ends governments cultivations government buildings properties agriculturally legislative buildings old towns damages populations dome buildings regimes allies government districts surrenders Bundestag buildings Historic quarters Ruined buildings places plots historically groceries Historic districts constructions BRD old historic town Platz Berlin's government's Europe's historical image history image history images Altstadt capital capitals foodstuff foodstuffs oldest Kuppelbau allied historic part Berlin Mitte district in the centre of