Nuremberg exorcises Nazi ghosts with new exhibit
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NUREMBERG — The German city of Nuremberg was associated like no other with the Nazis. It was here that they created the main race laws against Jews and where their enormous party rallies took place.
But once World War II was over, the southern city was also where the Allies decided to put on trial the Fuehrer’s surviving henchmen, an event marked at the weekend, exactly 65 years on, with the opening of a new exhibit.
“Better late than never,” Hans-Christian Taeubrich, the head of a documentation center opened in 2001 on the site of the immense Nazi rally grounds and a co-organizer of the new exhibit, told AFP.
The new exhibit is located in the attic above courtroom 600 where 21 top Nazis including Hermann Goering and Rudolf Hess went on trial on Nov. 20, 1945, in full view of the world’s, and Germany’s, media.
The courtroom is still in use but when not, members of the public can still enter, and visitors to the new exhibit can peek through small windows and see where the historic events of 1945-6 unfolded..... MORE
Source: The Daily Tribune
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20101124com8.html
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