Alan: thanks for another great year of brilliant history and on-site videos. You bring us to places most of us will never have a chance to see. Merry Christmas and cheers from Minnesota.
I visited the street outside the court a few years ago but was unlucky that it was not possible to go inside on that particular day. However, during the same trip i also visited the Documentation Center at the Nazi Party Rallying Grounds. This is located in the north wing of the unfinished remains of the Congress Hall of the former Nazi party rallies where there is a permanent exhibition "Fascination and Terror" which includes info about the trials and the other building on the site.
I did not go in either on this trip as the weather was so nice. They have moved the documentation centre - I was also in there in 2012 - in fact I have videos from there.
Extremely interesting. I have never been to Nuremberg but if I ever visit there, I will definitely tour the courtroom and related facilities. Speaking of Nazis who escaped justice ---- while the name Julius Streicher is rightfully remembered as one of the absolutely worst anti-Semitic monsters in history and who was hung at Nuremberg --- his dedicated partner-in-crime escaped punishment. Streicher's cartoonist for "Der Steurmer" Philip Rupprecht, known as "Fipps" only spent a couple of years in prison before being released. He died in obscurity in Germany decades later. Yet the cartoons of "Fipps" are just as vicious, hateful, and violently provocative as all the writings of Streicher. Millions of Germans saw the artworks of "Fipps" and were heavily influenced by them. There is no question his artwork played a huge part in the demonization and murder of millions. It's very curious to me why "Fipps" escaped execution and today has been mostly forgotten.
In 2017, I started photographing his caricatures with the aim of doing something with them. For the past almost eight years they have sat on my computer, perhaps it is time to do something about them. He got a ten year sentence, he was released in 1950. His argument would be that he 'never hurt anyone physically'. The case of Rupprecht is the best I can think of why there should be laws on hate speech and inciting others to hatred.
@@HistoryonUA-cam By that logic a lot of British media would have to be imprisoned for decades for flippantly pushing lies about WMD in 2003, leading to the death of over half a million Iraqis. I still feel repulsion when I remember the tone of some of their ''reporters'' egging us on to back an illegal war.
Adenauer made a concerted effort to bring their war criminals home and set them free. Kurt Meyer is a prime example in the mid fifties he fought to bring home what the Soviets had deemed the worst offenders. He implemented amnesties that absolved over 800.000.
Alan: thanks for another great year of brilliant history and on-site videos. You bring us to places most of us will never have a chance to see. Merry Christmas and cheers from Minnesota.
Thanks Bryce - all the best to you too!
Hi alan..🖐 that brownstone looks original to the 40's. Maybe go in and do a video and check out the rear buildings.?
I did that, I went round the back and filmed it although as it is a prison, I could not get in. I have used the footage in a video already.
I visited the street outside the court a few years ago but was unlucky that it was not possible to go inside on that particular day. However, during the same trip i also visited the Documentation Center at the Nazi Party Rallying Grounds. This is located in the north wing of the unfinished remains of the Congress Hall of the former Nazi party rallies where there is a permanent exhibition "Fascination and Terror" which includes info about the trials and the other building on the site.
I did not go in either on this trip as the weather was so nice. They have moved the documentation centre - I was also in there in 2012 - in fact I have videos from there.
Extremely interesting. I have never been to Nuremberg but if I ever visit there, I will definitely tour the courtroom and related facilities. Speaking of Nazis who escaped justice ---- while the name Julius Streicher is rightfully remembered as one of the absolutely worst anti-Semitic monsters in history and who was hung at Nuremberg --- his dedicated partner-in-crime escaped punishment. Streicher's cartoonist for "Der Steurmer" Philip Rupprecht, known as "Fipps" only spent a couple of years in prison before being released. He died in obscurity in Germany decades later. Yet the cartoons of "Fipps" are just as vicious, hateful, and violently provocative as all the writings of Streicher. Millions of Germans saw the artworks of "Fipps" and were heavily influenced by them. There is no question his artwork played a huge part in the demonization and murder of millions. It's very curious to me why "Fipps" escaped execution and today has been mostly forgotten.
In 2017, I started photographing his caricatures with the aim of doing something with them. For the past almost eight years they have sat on my computer, perhaps it is time to do something about them. He got a ten year sentence, he was released in 1950. His argument would be that he 'never hurt anyone physically'. The case of Rupprecht is the best I can think of why there should be laws on hate speech and inciting others to hatred.
@@HistoryonUA-cam By that logic a lot of British media would have to be imprisoned for decades for flippantly pushing lies about WMD in 2003, leading to the death of over half a million Iraqis. I still feel repulsion when I remember the tone of some of their ''reporters'' egging us on to back an illegal war.
Adenauer made a concerted effort to bring their war criminals home and set them free. Kurt Meyer is a prime example in the mid fifties he fought to bring home what the Soviets had deemed the worst offenders. He implemented amnesties that absolved over 800.000.
One check is on Iohannis