More Thoughts on Day Three in Nürnberg

July 8, 2009

Now we hear from Christopher Morris, a senior at Benjamin E. Mays High School. Today’s adventure began in a similar fashion as yesterday; I woke up, ate breakfast, and I along with the rest of the group walked to a nearby train station to catch a trolley. Today our destination was the Nazi Documentation Center on the former Nazi Rally Grounds. I was particularly interested in today’s tour because of the slight fascination I have with World War II. Our tour began at a large, coliseum-like building, built during Nazi Germany. Our tour guide showed us around the building and explained how the Nazis put emphasis on taking away individuality and focusing on the group as a whole. He explained how this was evident in their architecture. Myself, having some experience in the field of architecture, found the Nazi buildings to be quite wasteful, putting emphasis on power and size as opposed to efficiency. It began to rain during our tour, so we hurried along finishing up the tour and heading inside to look at the exhibit. The exhibit was in German, so we carried around small devices to translate. The exhibit showed how the Nazi regime came to power over the course of 20 years. It also illustrated some of the horrors that occurred in the Nazi concentration camps. After going through the tour, we walked to a nearby a restaurant to refuel. While I must admit that the food wasn’t the best of our stay, it was good enough. After refueling we headed back to the documentation center for a lecture on the Nürnberg Trials. The trials were basically a military tribunal for high ranking Nazi officials that had committed war crimes. I learned a from the lecture about Nürnberg during World War II and how they document the past events today. After the lecture we headed back to the hotel, concluding our day.

 

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