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Reichsrat deputies were members or representatives of the state ministries, and were bound by the instructions of their respective state governments. States were represented in the Reichsrat on the basis of their population. While the Reichsrat was customarily referred to as the "upper chamber," it was actually not as powerful as the Reichstag ...
The Reichsrat (German: [ʁaɪ̯çs.ʁaːt], "Reich Council") of the Weimar Republic was the de facto upper house of Germany's parliament; the lower house was the popularly elected Reichstag. The Reichsrat's members were appointed by the German state governments to represent their interests in the legislation and administration of the nation at ...
He also argued that the act's passage in the Reichsrat was tainted by the overthrow of the state governments under the Reichstag Fire Decree; as Evans put it, the states were no longer "properly constituted or represented", making the Enabling Act's passage in the Reichsrat "irregular". [28]
Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat. Within two weeks of the abolition of the state parliaments, the Reich government enacted the "Law on the Abolition of the Reichsrat" (14 February 1934) formally abolishing the Reichsrat, the second chamber of the national parliament that represented the states. This was a clear violation of the Enabling Act.
The Reichstag of the Weimar Republic (1919–1933) was the lower house of Germany's parliament; the upper house was the Reichsrat, which represented the states.The Reichstag convened for the first time on 24 June 1920, taking over from the Weimar National Assembly, which had served as an interim parliament following the collapse of the German Empire in November 1918.
Photos of the bearded Robert Keith Packer wearing a hoodie with the Nazi SS skull and Auschwitz 'Work Brings Freedom' slogan went viral after Jan. 6 ... More than 1.1 million men, women and ...
In many cases in Eastern Europe, women and teenage girls were kidnapped from the streets during German military and police round-ups to be used as sex slaves. [35] [36] [37] The women were raped by up to 32 men per day at a nominal cost of three Reichsmarks. [37] A Swiss Red Cross mission driver Franz Mawick wrote about what he saw in 1942:
The scammers sent WhatsApp messages and emails pretending to be Brad Pitt, promising future romantic relationships. ... The two women targeted by the online scammers lost a combined €325,000 ...