Oct. 29, 2010

Today we all ventured to the city of Nürnberg where we visited the Nazi document center. The establishment was in just one of the many buildings that were parts of Hitler’s dream Parade Grounds. After an hour of so in the building I actually began to understand how this man had the support of the nation. He slowly desensitized the people into the ideal followers that he so needed. Everyone knew the Nazi song and would sing it like a Christmas carol, subconsciously in the kitchen wile making dinner. He convinced them that the Jews and many others were inferior to them all and needed to be rid of. Propaganda filled the minds of every individual and it seemed so right that the undesirables should be disposed of. So when the time came and all the Jews and many others were disappearing, no one saw the harm in it. And when this large supply of rock began to come from nowhere, no one saw reason to wonder. Now we know that at most concentration camps had strenuous work for its prisoners to where many of the worker would die from being over worked and malnourished, but the German people did not know this. It was all a secret.  

We walked around later outside in the beauty of the yellow fall leaves. An hour was given to us to explore the grounds of the Nazi turf. I wish that we would have had more than an hour. Two would have been nice. We got to the famous Zeppelin field and I had to sit on the steps in defiance against Hitler. The irony to his end just screams JUSTICE!!! If he knew that this was all that was left of his “kingdom” he would role over in his ash can. 

Later that day we all got to taste the world famous Nürenburg bratwurst. They were smaller than normal, but Jerry says, “the smaller, the better.”

The next day we were off to spend the day in Prague!