June 3rd, 2011
Last day on my cruise!
Nuremberg has been around for almost 1,000 years. Unfortunately that isn’t what it is known for. It is home to the Nuremberg trials, a series of trials post WWII conducted to bring justice to those who architected the Nazi Regime. Unfortunately, there were only 10 of them captured and only 9 sentenced (1 committed suicide)
Nuremberg was heavily damaged during the war. We were shown pictures and told that 80 percent had to be rebuilt. We were shown pictures and I thought there was a lot more than 20 percent standing but what do I know? It makes you wonder just how old the structures that you are looking at really are?
Either original or not, Nuremberg was enjoyable. I loved going through the Medieval village and then down to the square where there was shopping and a farmer’s market. We spent the better part of the morning on a tour and then we had free time. We went back to the boat for lunch.
The busses were going to go from the boat to the town center and although I thought I should go, I didn’t find myself wanting to go back – I learned long ago that while travelling things might look good and seem like a good idea but once you get home you wonder if you were thinking at all when you bought it. I don’t want a coo-coo clock, I don’t need a beer stein (although the one my sister bought me in Germany is way cool and I am not seeing those in the shops), I don’t need a nutcracker or any other Christmas decorations.
I stayed on the ship and plotted out my way to Munich! However, I would have loved to have seen the things that I saw but not through a bus window. There was an optional tour that would get us into the court rooms where the trials were carried out along with some other Nazi places but there was a music festival going on and the places that they used to land the zeppelins and carry out the Nazi parades military exercises were the same spaces that the stage and audience were using.
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