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Published: June 22nd 2017
Courtroom 600
The first Nuremberg trial was held here after WWII. 21 were tried, three acquitted, 12 sentenced to death by hanging and the remainder got prison sentences.Geo: 49.4505, 11.0805
Saw the locations of the famous Nuremberg rallies. These were eight-day events, the last one before the war attended by over a million people.
Our young guide was very frank about the atrocities and extermination camps. Without trying to make excuses, he described Germany in the 30's. Hyperinflation, un-employment, low self esteem. Then Hitler came and brought in a program of public works, industrialisation and gave the people someone to blame for their trails (Jews and minorities). The youth of the 30s grew up into the soldiers of the war, and they believed the propaganda.
Germany now leaves Nazi infrastructure intact, as a grim reminder. To demolish it would be to invite future denials about what happened.
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