Nuremberg has beautiful architecture and a sometimes dark history

When Hitler took power in 1933, he made Nuremberg the site of his Nazi Party Rallies — elaborate celebrations of Nazi culture, ideology, and power. To host the proceedings, he and architect Albert Speer designed massive buildings in Hitler’s preferred style: stark, huge, and Neoclassical. But only a few of the plans were completed before war broke out. Today, it’s possible to walk around the still-unfinished remains of Hitler’s megalomaniacal super-structures, including Zeppelin Field, where Hitler addressed his followers, and the never-completed Congress Hall. Inspired by Rome’s Colosseum, it was to be big enough to accommodate an audience of 50,000.

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