Today began with a delicious Bavarian breakfast…pretzels and cold cuts and tea for me. Deliciousness was embodied in this morning meal. Our first tour of the day was to go to the Documentation Centre/Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds. This huge museum complex is part of what was previously planned to become a massive rally ground complex for the Nazi party. The enormity of the project’s scale is hard to describe by words. However, most of the construction was never finished, and a good deal of it was never started. However, a building that was intended to be a congress hall for fifty thousand people now houses a museum detailing this grand construction plan of Hitler. In all honesty, it was very impressive.
After this, we went on a tour of the courthouse where the Nuremberg trials were held for a group of the leaders of the Nazi regime. These included military leaders, propaganda ministers, and others who were instrumental in promoting Hitler’s Third Reich. The courtroom in which the famous Nuremberg Trials were held is still in use today. An interesting aspect of this courtroom is that there is a large crucifix hanging in the middle of one of the walls. This, we learned, is a common sight in Bavaria, an area of Germany that is still in a large part Catholic.
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