Memorial of the Nuremberg Trials

Taking the U-Bahn to the Nuremberg Trial Memoriam.

Here is the courthouse where the trials were held:

Memorium Nuremberg Trials
World history was written in a courtroom of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. It was historic Courtroom 600 where leaders of the Nazi regime had to answer for their crimes before the International Military Tribunal between November 20, 1945 and October 1, 1946. The trials had an enormous influence on the development of international criminal law right up to the present. The Memorium Nuremberg Trials is an information and documentation center which is located on the top floor of the courthouse. It provides insights on the defendants and their crimes, the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials of 1946-49, and the impact of the Nuremberg Trials until today.  (From this website.)

The Major War Criminals Trial was held here in Courtroom 600 before the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.  From 1946 to 1949, 12 “Subsequent Trials” were held in the same courtroom before exclusively U.S. American military tribunals..

After visiting the room 600, we spent an hour or two in the exhibition and documentation center reading about and listening to actual recordings from the trial and people involved with it.  Again, we were given a channel to tune into on our smartphones.

This particular part of the trial of the doctors who performed medical experiments was interesting to me after reading “The Lilac Girls” about these women and what happened to them at the Ravensbrück concentration camps.  I felt like I knew some of those women and their doctors.

It’s been a full day of Nazi Party education, but we had one more place to visit in Nuremberg–the underground art bunkers.