The Capitol in central Berlin was decided to build after the defeat of France in the German-French War in 1871, during the last battle of the European battlefield in World War II. On April 28, 1945, German contact with the outside world was interrupted, and Soviet 152 mm and 203 mm howitzers entered Berlin city, attacking the German Parliament building. The Germans deployed light howitzers on the roof of the Capitol were not able to defeat the Soviets' large-calibre howitzers either destroyed or dumbed down. Red Army soldiers stormed into the Capitol through a gap bombed by shells, and fought with the Germans on a floor by floor. After a hundred years of vicissitudes, after several wars, the old Capitol has been incomplete, and the construction of the Capitol in 1995 has once again become the focus of the press and public attention. On 19 April 1999 the Bundestag officially moved into the restored and renovated Parliament building, which was re-entered into the center of German political life.