Holocaust History in Nuremberg

Home to the Nazi Party Rally Grounds (Reichsparteigelande), Nuremberg played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rule. Here are a few ways to learn about the rise and fall of the Third Reich, and see how world history was made in Nuremberg.

Experiences

• Gain insight into Third Reich history and the Nazi rallies held in Nuremberg between 1933 and 1945.

• Discover key sites of interest including Great Street (Grosse Strasse), designed by architect Albert Speer to be the central axis of the Nuremberg parade grounds.

• Visit the half-finished Congress Hall, a building Hitler planned to use for party meetings with other Nazi leaders and officials.

• See the Third Reich buildings where Hitler inspected members of the SS, the Nazi Party’s paramilitary organization.

• Learn about the Nuremberg Trials, a series of tribunals that took place in the city after World War II to prosecute prominent members of Nazi Germany for the war crimes they committed.

• Visit the Documentation Center, a Nazi Party Rally Grounds museum with exhibits on key wartime and postwar events—including the Nuremberg Trials—and their place in the histories of Germany and Europe.