It was only a very, very close decision, back then, shortly after the fall of communism: Will Berlin be the capital again, like it was before the war, after reunification? It was already East Berlin, de facto, even if de jure it wasn't allowed to be that way. West Berlin wasn't even part of the Federal Republic of Germany and the votes weren't counted. Young men fled to the island city to avoid military service. When Bundestag Presidents were elected in the makeshift Reichstag, just a few meters west of the Wall, there were always notes of protest from East Berlin and Moscow. And – could it be possible to make a city the capital again, in which so much evil was conceived, planned and ultimately carried out? Memorial sites such as the Topography of Terror, the Holocaust Memorial and the Neue Wache still bear witness to this today. Could a new, democratic entity - in its central functions such as parliament, government and ministries - be allowed to move into the guise of the Prussian, some say imperialist, Wilhelmstrasse seat of government? Ministries and the Reich Chancellery had been located there since the imperial era, and Hitler and his favorite architect Speer oversized it with a New Reich Chancellery. This attempt was made, starting with the move of the Bundestag to the Reichstag in 1999, brilliantly illuminated again by Sir William Foster and surmounted by a glass dome. Here the citizens are now keeping an eye on the elected representatives, and we also dare to take a look in front of and behind the scenes on our tour through the government district.