For many years, the city of Nuremberg has dealt with its particular history during the time of National Socialism in a responsible way. Especially in the knowledge of its history –in 1933 Adolf Hitler named the municipality the “City of the Party Rallies” – Nuremberg has today set itself the task as a City of Peace and Human Rights to actively advocate for tolerance and human rights. At a place of the perpetrators, museums provide information about the causes and consequences of the Nazi regime of terror.

At the Way of Human Rights, which was created by the Israeli artist Dani Karavan in 1993, the 30 articles of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights – carved on pillars in various languages – are present in the cityscape. The city of Nuremberg created the first municipal Human Rights Office in Germany and, since 1995, awards the International Nuremberg Human Rights Prize every two years. Since 1995, Nuremberg is also the site of the International Human Rights Conference, during which international experts focus on various aspects of human rights.