Memorium

A very full and varied day today, still in Nuremberg, making the most of our two day tourist passes.

Visited a number of churches - Protestant, Catholic and Lutheran - then went to the Imperial Castle to learn a bit about the history of the first two German Reichs. After this, we visited Albrecht Durer's home, a toy museum and a sausage stall, before jumping on an underground train to Memorium, the court room where the Nuremberg Trials took place in 1945-6.

Sadly, the court room was not open to the public today, as it is still used as a working courtroom, but the exhibition was a fascinating and brutally honest look at the trials, and at what followed on from them, including the precedents they set for international law.

In the evening, there was a political protest in the town centre - someone with a microphone spouting fascist propaganda was basically drowned out by a lot of very loud whistles and some anti-fascist cries. There were far more ani-fascist protesters than there were people in the initial rally, and dozens of people going about their daily business all around them.

The police were out in force, but didn't seem to have to do a great deal to make it all happen without major incident - by the time we had finished tea, everyone had gone home!