Hitler's Town

The documentation centre was informative but really long.  You had an audio guide and wandered through 20 or so rooms listening to the five to eight different stations in each section.  There were some videos and surprisingly not very many documents.  Tanner had enough after half an hour but kept it together for the whole two hours we were in there (Haylee and Teliah spent almost 3 hours).  There was lots of interesting information about the rise of Hitler, his plans (put into action or not) and the war.  We all learnt something which was great.  We were cooking inside in the heated rooms with our clothes that were geared for outside (but that came in handy as we wandered through the whole complex).  Afterwards we wandered through the half completed Congress Hall which if finished would have been twice the size of Rome's Colosseum.  We tried out the acoustics with the good old 'Cooee'.  We then went to the Zeppelin field which is where the rallies took place. We stood on the Fuhrer platform and gazed out on what is now soccer pitches.  It was ghostly quiet which is perhaps apt considering all that went on there.  With a bit of imagination you could see the stands filled with adoring people and the field covered in military personnel, tanks and men parading past.  If that had been all for me it would have gone to my head too.  It was mind boggling to believe it was all for one man and because of one man's plan.
We headed home in the dark (but only 4:30pm which I am still trying to get my head around), had pizza then mum and I headed to the Christmas markets to see the church.  We heard a beautiful choir inside and then went outside to the crowds to have a huge Nutella crepe - yum!  We slowly wandered back, warm in our many layers and enjoyed the ambience.  The Godfreys have gone to a heated pool which we saw on our way to the document centre. I scared the kids by telling them that in Germany they swim nude a lot.  Their faces were a sight!
Sadly tomorrow is our last day in Nuremberg.  We just get a sense of the place, direction wise and finding good places to eat, and we have to leave.  Like Cologne we will be leaving without doing some of the things we researched.  I guess it leaves us with something to do the next visit.  But the next one will definitely be in summer! (Though I am getting used to the cold)

I am also sad to report that all the adults in our party have now bought new coats and they are all dark colours.  On the plus side we look very European but on the negative side it is much harder to find each other.