Documentation Center, Nuremberg (must see)

The Documentation Center is housed in the never completed Congress Hall. The entrance to the museum features a dramatic glass and steel passageway that is "speered" through the brick building.

The Documentation Center features exhibits housed in concrete and brick galleries. These galleries offer historic photographs the show the rise and fall of Hitler's Germany.

The exhibit Fascination and Terror describes the National Socialist dictatorship. The exhibit focuses on propaganda's role in normalizing and elevating Hitler and his extreme beliefs.

The exhibit also shows the Nuremberg Laws, which stripped Jews and other minorities of their rights and led to the Holocaust.

Visitors can view an exhibit that commemorates victims of Nazi Germany's concentration camps. Additional exhibits focus on the 12 Nuremberg Trials that took place between 1945-1946. The Nuremberg Trials were famous for holding National Socialist executives to account for their war crimes.

The Documentation Center's exhibits ask visitors to ponder how a civilized nation created and executed the horrors that Hitler perpetrated.

The Documentation Center also provides visitors with historical information about the Congress Hall and the parade grounds. In addition, visitors can walk on a suspended platform to get a panoramic view of Congress Hall.