Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds and remaining structures: the unfinished Congress Hall, the main stand at the Zeppelinfeld and the Grosse Strasse (parade road) stand as mute witnesses to National Socialist megalomania.
The largest still intact monumental structure built by the National Socialists, and the headquarters of the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds, the Kongresshalle, is the ideal starting point to explore the architectural traces left behind by the totalitarian system in Nuremberg. From there you can easily reach the Zeppelinfeld and Zeppelintribüne, Luitpoldhain or the Große Straße, planned as a 2 km-long parade ground.
Ganze elf Quadratkilometer umfasste das ehemalige Reichsparteitagsgelände - der Ort, an dem die Nationalsozialisten jährlich ein aufwändiges Propagandaspektakel veranstalteten. Die Bustour über das weitläufige Areal erklärt die überwältigende Kulissenarchitektur, die Funktion der Reichsparteitage und den Umgang Nürnberg mit dem nationalsozialistischen Erbe.
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Up to the present day the "Nuremberg Rallies", the "Nuremberg Trials" and the "Nuremberg Laws" link the city's name to the period of Nazi rule. The guided tour presents the rallies as mass-propaganda shows but also gives an insight into the system of concentration and exterminations camps which wnet hand in hand with the propaganda.
In addition, there is a discussion about how...