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Nuremberg

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(nʊr'ӘmbӘrg), Ger. Nürnberg (nürn'bĕrk´´), city (1994 pop. 498,945), Bavaria, S Germany, on the Pegnitz River and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. One of the great historic cities of Germany, Nuremberg is now an important commercial, industrial, and transportation center. Its manufactures include electrical equipment, mechanical and optical products, motor vehicles, chemicals, textiles, and printed materials. Homemade toys and fine gingerbread (Ger. Lebkuchen ) are traditional export items. Since 1945 much of the city's architectural beauty has been restored. Among the historic buildings are the churches of St. Sebald (1225–73), St. Lorenz (13th–14th cent.), St. Jacob (14th cent.), and Our Lady (1352–61); the Hohenzollern castle (11th–16th cent.); the old city hall (1616–22); and the house (now a museum) where Albrecht Dürer lived from 1509 to 1528. A large portion of the city walls (14th–17th cent.) still stands. Nuremberg is the site of the German National Museum (founded 1852), a part…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
(nʊr'ӘmbӘrg), Ger. Nürnberg (nürn'bĕrk´´), city (1994 pop. 498,945), Bavaria, S Germany, on the Pegnitz River and the Rhine-Main-Danube Canal. One of the great historic cities of Germany, Nuremberg is now an important commercial, industrial, and transportation center. Its manufactures include…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
City in Bavaria, Germany, on the River Pegnitz, 149 km/92 mi northwest of Munich; population (2003 est) 486,700, urban agglomeration 1,007,800. Industries include electrical and other machinery, motor vehicles, optical products, precision instruments, textiles, printed materials, and food…
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Full text Article Nuremberg Trials

From The Oxford Companion to International Relations
The atrocities of World War II were without precedent in modern times. Since 1941, Allied leaders repeatedly warned the Axis powers that war criminals would be brought to trial. A United Nations War Crimes Commission was created in 1943, and the Soviets held sporadic war-crimes trials even while…
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Also known as: International Military Tribunal; Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal 1946 The Nuremberg Trials generally refers to the trials against members of the German leadership for war crimes committed in the period leading up to and during World War II. The decision to try these individuals was made…
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Also known as: Nuremberg Decrees 1935 During the annual convention of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) in Nuremberg on September 15, 1935, the “Nuremberg laws” were passed. This new legislation built the basis for the fascist policies of the Third Reich under Adolf Hitler that…
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From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism
After the May 1945 military defeat of the Nazi government in Germany, the victorious Allied nations, France, England, the United States, and the Soviet Union, determined to bring Nazi war criminals to justice. Between November 1945 and August 1946 the allied authorities held a series of widely…
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From Encyclopedia of Terrorism
At the end of World War II in 1945, most of the surviving German Nazi leaders were captured by the Allies who occupied Germany that spring. They were placed on trial the next year for crimes against humanity. The Nazi regime, during its 12 years in power (1933-45), authorized and encouraged a…
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Full text Article Nuremberg laws

From Encyclopedia of World Religions: Encyclopedia of Judaism
Also known as: Nuremberg Decrees 1935 On September 15, 1935, the Nazis published the Nuremberg Laws, officially excluding Jews from German citizenship and severely limiting their rights within German society. The new laws also defined whom the Nazis considered legally to be a Jew: anyone who had at…
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From The Reader's Companion to American History
In the Nuremberg trials (1945-1946), an International Military Tribunal tried high Nazi officials for actions committed during World War II that contravened the accepted laws of war. Among the practices condemned were plotting and waging aggressive war, using slave labor, looting occupied countries, …
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Full text Article Nuremberg Rally

From Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable
The name of any of the massive Nazi rallies held in 1923, 1927, 1929 and from 1933 to 1938 in Nuremberg (Nürnberg), mainly as propaganda events, carefully staged to reinforce party enthusiasm and to showcase the might of Nazism to Germany and the world. The first major rally was that of 1929, which…
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