Nuremberg is the second-largest city of the German federal state of Bavaria after its capital Munich.
The city is famous for its historical landmarks like the imperial castle and the walled Old Town.
Nuremberg will be forever associated with the Nazis (National Socialist German Workers’ Party) for its huge rallies before and during WWII.
The Nazis held six enormous annual rallies from 1933 to 1938 with 150,000 SS troops and 50,000 others. The rallies were carefully staged propaganda events to send a powerful message to the rest of the country of their support for their policies. They employed many techniques to overload the senses including rousing martial and Wagnerian music, parades of swastika formations, colossal banners and flags, huge fires and firework shows and waves of “Heil Hitler” salutes.
Nuremberg, which during the period of Nazi rule was officially given the nickname “City of the Nuremberg Rally”, was also a target for attacks with a considerable symbolic effect.
Daytime attacks on industrial and infrastructure targets were mostly carried out by the technically better equipped US Army Air Forces as part of the division of labor of the Allied air fleets in order to achieve a high degree of accuracy, which was technologically only possible to a limited extent. Nighttime area bombardments were mostly flown by the AF’s Pathfinder Force
The Battle of Nuremberg was a five-day battle between the forces of the United States 7th Army on one side, and Nazi Germany on the other during the last days of World War II.
During a guided tour you will learn more about the WWII history of Nuremberg and the rally place.
After the war, Allied powers—United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union—came together to form the International Military Tribunal (IMT) which was the first international war crimes tribunal in history. During the Nuremberg trials (1945 – 1946), some of the most prominent Nazi leaders stood trial for crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing crimes.
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