A History Lesson in Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

When in Nuremberg, it’s worth investigating the history of the Nazi Regime and World War II. Just visiting the Documentation Center, Nazi Party Rally Grounds, and the Memorium Nuremberg Trials which includes Courtroom 600 takes an entire winter day!

We began our morning at the Documentation Center or in German Dokumentationszentrum Reichsparteitagsgelände at 10am when the museum opened. The Documentation Center is the last stop on line 8 of the above ground tram. After a little trial and error and lots of typing names, we purchased our transportation tickets for the day at the kiosk by the tracks between the central train station and Old Town. It is necessary to have a credit card with a pin number.

The final stop on line 8 is Doku-Zentrum which means Documentation Center and the tram stops right in front of it. Next to the Documentation Center is Zepplin Field which was the Nazi Party Rally Grounds. While it is possible to visit Zepplin Field prior to the museum opening, in my opinion it is better to listen to the history first.

The entry fee to the Documentation Center is only 6 Euro which includes an audio device in the visitor’s preferred language, in our case, English. The tour begins upstairs and speaks to the rise of the Nationalist Socialist German Worker’s Party (NSDAP for short or the Nazi Party) all the way up through World War II. Each story board includes a number to key into the audio device to hear the related history which began in 1918, many years prior to WWII. ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).