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The Nazi Plan is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive; The Nazi Plan at a site explaining the circumstances in which Nazi Concentration Camps, The Nazi Plan and Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today were arranged.
Previous to the time of the Nuremberg Trials, this excuse was known in common parlance as "superior orders". [citation needed] After the prominent, high-profile event of the Nuremberg Trials, that excuse is now referred to by many as the "Nuremberg Defense". In recent times, a third term, "lawful orders" has become common parlance for some people.
The Nuremberg rallies (officially Reichsparteitag ⓘ, meaning Reich Party Congress) were a series of celebratory events coordinated by the Nazi Party and held in the German city of Nuremberg from 1923 to 1938. The first nationwide party convention took place in Munich in January 1923, but the location was shifted to Nuremberg that September. [1]
A diagram of the Nuremberg Laws that shows the pseudo-scientific racial division, which is the basis of racial policies of Nazi Germany. Only people with four German grandparents (four white circles - the first table on the left) were considered to be "full-blooded" Germans.
Among the many war crimes they faced, the Nazi officials were accused of crimes against peace and -- for the first time in history, crimes against humanity.
The Cathedral of Light or Lichtdom was a main aesthetic feature of the Nazi Party rallies in Nuremberg from 1934 to 1938. Designed by architect Albert Speer , it consisted of 152 anti-aircraft searchlights , at intervals of 12 metres, aimed skyward to create a series of vertical bars surrounding the audience.
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Historians studying the Holocaust today usually base their research on the German translation, which Allied forces also used when translating the report into English shortly after the end of the war. The Vrba–Wetzler report contains a detailed description of the geography and management of the camps, and of how the prisoners lived and died.