After being gutted by a fire in 1933 and damaged by air raids in World War II, the building was left in ruins. It came under West Berlin, but the West German government was set up in Bonn, with a new...
The Reichstag building burned down on 28 February 1933. This provided Hitler with an excuse to unleash a wave of anti-Communist hysteria and ban the Communists from taking their seats in Reichstag...
If you are referring to the February 2009 bushfires in Victoria, the people who were known to be at risk were told to evacuate. However, many of them chose to stay and try to fight the fires. They...