Nuremberg Trials Courthouse

World history was written in the courtroom of the Nuremburg Palace of Justice. This is where leaders of the Nazi regime had to answer for their crimes before an 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. Courtroom 600 remains a working courtroom to this day. An information and documentation center, the Nuremberg Trials Memorial ("Memorium Nürnberger Prozesse"), is located on the top floor of the Courthouse. It provides insights about the defendants and their crimes, the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials of 1946-49, and the impact of the Nuremberg Trials up to the present.

On the way back home from Salzberg, we made another stop in Nuremburg.  This time to see the Courtroom and museum of the Nuremburg Trials.  

When we were leaving, the leaders of the German FBI and police were meeting in the courthouse to recommit to never letting anything like the Nazis happen again in Germany.  They had a window above where we got to peak in and see the courthouse and how it has been rearranged.

I like that the woman reporter was from 

College Park, MD (shout out to Brady and Elizabeth)

 It was really neat to see where the trials were held.  It discussed the prominent Nazis, twelve of which were sentenced to death but many of the people convicted of crimes and sentenced to harsh prison sentences were let out a few months later.  It made me wonder why go through the trial and sentencing if it was all a bluff.  I read about one who was let out and lived until he was 80.  He ended up committing suicide.  I wonder if living a life knowing how evil he was was harsher punishment.