What’s that for? The first rainbow flag on the Reichstag

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet: in 2022 the German Bundestag flew the rainbow flag for the first time in the history of the parliamentary building. A year later, in the framework of an official presentation of this object by the president of the German Bundestag, Bärbel Bas, to the president of the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Raphael Gross, the 4.5 x 7 metre flag found its way into the museum’s collection “Civilian Dress and Textiles”. Julia Franke, head of the collection, tells us what it is all about.