Interior pictures of Reichstag pre-fire?

[NeoVisionist]

I haven't managed to find much of anything online. Hitler said the Reichstag was "fit for a soap producer" didn't he? Was the building grand or prosaic inside?

Did the building see any use after the fire or was it kept a burned-out hulk (did it all burn?).

[GregSingh]

I Googled for Reichstagsgebaude 1930 and so many interior photos came out, I couldn't decide which one to upload
And no, after the fire buiding was not used as parliament house. There was an anti-comunist permanent exhibition setup there at one point.

[NeoVisionist]

Thanks!

Since itt was right across the road from the new chancellery, maybe it could have used turning into a guesthouse for visiting dignitaries.

[Mannheim]

The New Chancellery and the Reichstag were several blocks apart.

[Br. James]

The burned-out Reichstag building became an instant and powerful propaganda symbol for Hitler's government -- it visibly conveyed the idea of what communist reaction would look like in Berlin and throughout Germany if it wasn't stopped in it's tracks. And the Enabling Act of March 1933 provided for Hitler's Cabinet and the NSDAP to rule Germany in the place of a duly-elected Reichstag parliamentary government. The aftermath of the Reichstag fire also enabled the creation of a new setting for Hitler's government just across the parking lot behind the Reichstag building, where the Kroll Opera House stood. The Kroll Opera provided a much more theatrical space for the few and far-between occasions when the Reichstag was called into session, as can be seen when comparing the few photos of the Reichstag in session in early February of 1933 in the old building, which was much less photogenic from a National Socialist point of view. The Kroll Opera House -- which was a 'theatre' of the highest order to begin with, allowed for the creation of the grandiose setting that we see in subsequent photos, with the giant gilt Eagle and Swastika suspended in a sunburst setting between two huge swastikas, and the president's and the speaker's desks flanked by the rows of seats forming a pyramid of the highest leadership of the New German Reich. Only a theatre building could allow for such a presentation; the old Reichstag building never could, as it was, and yet it did aid Hitler's government by it's burned-out and abandoned presence as a permanent reminder of what the opposition would do...if it had the chance.

Br. James