We started our tour of Nuremberg after lunch. The first stop was at the Kongresshall - the nazis built this coliseum-like huge building for holding rallies once a year. The outside was stone and beautifully crafted while the inside was brick. It was never finished but the magnitude of it's size was overwhelming. Just across the dried up lake was the zeppelin field and grandstand where hitler spoke to more than million people who gathered to hear his propaganda. We drove over to the hall of justice where 21 nazi generals were put on trial in 1945. This hall was used since there was a prison right behind the hall. Only 10 were sentenced to hang.
We then entered the medieval walled city. 80% of it was destroyed by the allies, but most had been rebuilt to it's original glory.
Hard to believe we walked the streets of the nazi headquarters. Of the 10,000 Jews before the war, the community is now 1500, most of whom are from FSU.
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