Nuremberg, Germany

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What do you suggest as a "must see" in Nuremberg that can be done in 1.5 days?

The Documentation Center Nazi Party Rally Grounds is worth a look
https://museums.nuernberg.de/documentation-center/

That is kind of funny calling Allied Bombings TERROR BOMBINGS,what do you call what the Nazis were doing to millions of people throughout Europe.
Now back to the original post,I think that it would take too much time to go to Dachau,there are many things in Nurnburg to keep you busy including Nazi Documentation Center and the walled town with the Castle and previously mentioned Albrect Durer home.
Mike

I think Dachau is too much of a stretch, unless maybe you get a bus tour--which would be a less that ideal way to visit. In Nuremberg: the Documentation Center and rally grounds, Duerer House, and the Imperial Castle. The German National Museum for me was a real highlight, kind of a German Smithsonian. Nuremberg is a much underrated city, so much to do there in 1.5 days.

I like time just spent walking the old town of Nürnberg and there are several nice day trips closer than Dachau. Bamberg, Würzburg, Regensburg and Rothenburg would each be a good choice.

I first traveled to Germany and to Nuremberg less than 30 years after the end of WW II. I could not have been more impressed by a place at the time than I was by Nuremberg. What a marvelous transformation it had undergone in just a couple of decades. And what a lovely place it still is today.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/N%C3%BCrnberg_im_April_1945_16.jpg
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If you just stay in N'berg, I think you will find your time goes quickly. If not, take an outing to the beautiful art/wine village of Iphofen, just a short trip from Nuremberg's main station by direct train. Scroll through these photos.

Most Monday-morning-quarterback-analyses of Allied bombing efforts do not consider the predictable terror of everyday life that decades (centuries?) of Nazi-domination might have wrought in Europe and around the planet... had a more "measured" assault not succeeded.

The perfect strategies for victory are always worked out by all those smart folks who didn't participate, long after the war was won or lost.

"Dachau concentration camp. Is this worth the trip or should we skip it?"

It isn't just the length of the trip, it's the camp itself that you should think about, IMO. It's a pretty emotional experience, not a place for everyone. I wouldn't expect any new insights into what happened or why. Dachau isn't a tourist destination, really - I see it mostly as a reminder to Germans of their past and to holocaust deniers, and also as a memorial place for families of victims. It's the sort of destination that only you can decide on, really.

The perfect strategies for victory are always worked out by all those smart folks who didn't participate

Honestly, I find this and your previous comments a bit condescending. My mother survived the bombardment of Nuremberg on the evening of the 2nd. January 1945 as the only one in their company because she had been sent to bring letters to the main post office near the station. All the others burned in the hot firestorm. She could observe what happened from the distance. There is no doubt that the goal of the bombing was exclusively the destruction of the historic old town, where only women, children and old people, many of them refugees from the east, lived. The industrial areas in the south had been already completely destroyed at this time. The bombardment followed a well-known pattern. First, the borders of the old town were marked with so-called "chrismas trees", then there were thrown down big explosive bombs, and finally phosphorus bombs, which kindled the hot firestorm. Incidentally, the British paper "Economist" called that method of warfare "ending Hitler's war in Hitler's style".

BTW, my mother never complained and she never would have used the expression "terror bombing". She always used to say that what she had experienced had made the word of the Prophet true "they have been planting the wind, and their fruit will be the storm". Nonetheless, I think that whole sad thing gives no reason to make fuzzy comments.

No condescension or offense intended. I'm completely aware that some of the decisions drawn then were imperfect or wrong. It's just that no just war where everything is on the line, one that absolutely positively must be won, has ever been conducted with 100% dignity and human compassion, and none ever will.