Hauptmarkt Fair Research Paper

NUREMBERG

The Christmas Market at Hauptmarkt Square
Nuremberg is one of the most historical, influential, and innovative cities of Germany and of Central Europe. With a population over one million citizens, Nuremberg has been culturally and historically significant in many events spanning its near 1000 years of existence. The city has seen the brunt of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Regime, as well as the famous Nuremberg Trails that followed. Nuremberg proved extremely innovative as it was a center for Humanism, Science, and Invention in the fifteenth century. The city has an impressive skyline with famous buildings such as the three Nuremberg castles and numerous picturesque churches. From the Christmas Market at Hauptmarkt Square in the wintertime,
Nuremberg was used as a site to rally German citizens under the Nazi Regime. The “Nuremberg Rallies” were held from 1927-1938 as a source of motivation for citizens and soldiers alike. Hundreds of thousands of Germans attended these rallies, and they grew larger year after year. When Adolf Hitler took power in Germany in 1933, the Nuremberg Rallies were sources of huge Nazi propaganda to express Nazi ideas. In 1935, Hitler ordered that the Reichstag meet at the annual Nuremberg rally to relay the message of the Nuremberg Laws, prohibiting citizenship to all Jews in Germany. Hitler and the Nazis staged countless parades, roll calls, marches, military tattoos, demonstrations of military power and party conferences, mixed with sports events, fairs and fireworks. Hitler had a gigantic statue constructed with the purpose of honoring Nazism. It was also in Nuremberg that Hitler had a large arena built, as well as parade grounds and a granite paved grand marching
The prosecution entered indictments against 24 major war criminals and six criminal organizations, the leadership of the Nazi party, the Schutzstaffell, the Sicherheitsdienst, the Gestapo, the Sturmabteilung and the "General Staff and High Command," comprising of several categories of senior military officers. Twenty-three Nazi physicians charged with conducting inhuman experiments on German civilians and nationals of other countries. The experiments ranged from studying the effects of high altitude and malaria to sterilization. Nine members of the Reich Ministry of Justice and seven members of the People 's and Special Courts were charged with using their power as prosecutors and judges to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. Twelve defendants, officers in the German Armed Forces, were charged with murdering thousands of civilians in Greece, Yugoslavia, and Albania, committing acts of devastation in Norway and other countries, drafting orders denying POWs rights, and ordering the slaughter of surrendered