Nurnberg

This page indicates that privately-arranged tours are available in English. An email address is provided there.

There's a good variety of things to see and do in Nuremberg. But if it's only the WW II stuff that interests you, and the circumstances for those are as you stated, then your time is probably better spent elsewhere.

I wholeheartedly recommend this place if you think you might be interested in seeing how the region's rural inhabitants have lived over the last half millenium or so. It's in Bad Windsheim, less than an hour from Nuremberg by train and on the route to Rothenburg from Nuremberg.

I just visited all the places you mentioned. The art bunker tour was just fascinating. It was supposed to be in German, but all the German speakers agreed it could be in English just for us. We were supposed to get headphones instead. Wonderful tour.
The Nazi Doucumentation center definitely worth it if you are interested in the years leading up to the Nazis and why Nuremberg opposed to another city. Still alot to see even with slimmed down content. We had to preregister. That may change. Go to the courtroom too and the museum. Really interesting. Info about other trials too.

Thanks to both of you for this information. Very helpful!

I just visited the Nazi Document Center on 9/13/21. For me it's an OK experience but not a Must. That said I quite enjoyed the walk in the surrounding area.

Responses to the interim temp exhibit have been quite mixed: You can google TripAdvisor to see about 6 comments from Aug and Sept this year. One commentator had seen both the "permanent" exhibit and the temp exhibit.

If your Nurnberg stay includes a Monday then definitely go spent couple hours there as most other museums inside Nurnberg are closed that day.

I visited earlier this month. I would skip the document center's temporary exhibit. It's quite disappointing. You can still walk or bike into the unfinished Congress Hall and read the displays without going into the temporary exhibit. The rally grounds are very expansive and best experienced on bike. Lots of road and tram construction going on at present around the center. Not sure if it'll be complete when you plan to visit, but know that it could be challenging to find your way around.

You didn't mention the Imperial castle, but I would recommend skipping in case you were considering it. It's a bunch of empty rooms with little information in English and no audio guide.

Tours in English are very limited right now. You may get lucky with folks agreeing to make a German tour in English, but it's not a given

If you do rent a bike, I would highly recommend the bike ride to Furth. It was the best part of my stay there.

@Nonnie - I read on the Nazi Document Center website that they are undergoing a renovation? Are there sections blocked off or closed down?

@Russ - I followed the link you provided and it led me down a dead end path to buy tickets because there is not an option to select saying I am from the USA. Do you know of another website that allows us to buy tickets for the Art Bunker?

@Charles---I would try sending them an email about this. I sent a question to them via email and they got right back to me.

BTW--we live in Austin too!
kmc

Charles: I'm not familiar with online ticketing. There's a contact page for submitting questions at the website though:

https://www.felsengaenge-nuernberg.de/en/contact.html

To Charles,
It looked like the Documentation Center had some sections shut down yes. I am not familiar with what it normally looks like. I learned a lot from what was available which was substantial. I learned about Nuremberg leading up to the Nazis. There is construction but I still found the experience educational. I loved walking the grounds.

Thanks Nonnie, Russ & Kimberly!!

Today the BBC World Service re-ran an interview with one of the U.S. prosecutors at the Nuremberg Nazi Trials, Ben Ferencz.

Seventy-five years after the Nuremberg Military Tribunals convicted some of the most senior Nazis of war crimes and crimes against humanity, HARDtalk repeats its 2017 interview with the last surviving prosecutor from the trials, Ben Ferencz. He also helped liberate the death camps of Europe when he was serving in the US military. Does he believe the Nuremberg trials have made genocide and crimes against humanity less likely to be committed in the world today?

podcast (23 minutes): https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1nbv
also was on BBC World News TV: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0010qrd

Since you have an interest in WWII places, check out the website "thirdreichruins.com". It has photos of many places in Germany taken during or shortly after the war, and photos of the same places taken more recently. Many of them are in Nurnberg itself.

Thanks everyone! So many interesting things to explore--even BEFORE we get to Germany!!
kmc

I just went to the art bunker website and booked tickets from here in the U.S.

from a visit 2 years ago

we spent 2 nights and 3 days and still didnt see everything
1 night wont do it justice

The document center is worth at least 4 hours and
walking to the parade grounds is well worth