Also check and see if the court room where the Nuremberg trials were held is open. I went to see these sites in Feb.'09 but the court room was closed for renovations. It is usually open on the weekends. We took the ICE from Munich. Seeing the documentation center and rally grounds was worth the trip, especially if you're a WWII buff. If you're in Austria, the concentration camp in Mauthausen in my opinion is a more stirring site than Dachau.

with the train only taking about 80 min

Must be old information. The fastest ICEs now make that trip in just over one hour. However, they are pretty expensive (€50 each way, per person . There is a Regional Express leaving Munich Hbf at 9:04, making the trip in about 1h45m. You can use that train with a Bayern-Ticket, and come back the same day, all for the same €28 for both of you.

Cary, it is very doable. The rally grounds and the Nazi Documentation center are so close together that you can easily see them both by walking from one to the other. Due to arriving later in the afternoon we regrettably did not get to go inside the Documentation center. Next time. We made the mistake of going to Zepplin Field first and by the time we got to the Documentation center it was closed. We walked around the Congress Hall and took photos of this immense building. It is the largest preserved unfinished Nazi monumental building. The podium where Hitler and his gangsters gave their speeches to thousands is still there although the stadium itself is not as large as it was at the height of the Nazi rallies. If you go, stand at the podium and look over the field which is much smaller now, and put your imagination to work of how it must have been. Eerie feeling.

So, is Urban Meyer staying or going?

Thanks for the input. I was using RS 2007 Germany/Austria (my wife bought it at a library sale) so it is out of date. The new RS guide is only Vienna & the Tyrol, so I didn't have new info. In either case, we'll be buying rail passes with that day in mind, so it won't be an extra 50 euros I don't think.

Thanks for your thoughts! :)

If you are also going to Vienna, #1. go to the Heldenplatz where over 300,000 jammed the place to see Hitler when he came back. Take a good look around the Heldenplatz.

2. For the military history of the Nazi period and WW II, I would suggest the Heeresgeschlichtliches Museum (the Army History), near the South Train Station---it's well worth seeing, if you want to see German ordinance in the war... the 1st Sunday of the month is free.

Also since internet booking engines still don't understand phonetics be sure to spell it "Nuremberg" in English or "Nürnberg" in German...

RailEurope (mis)spells it Nuremburg.

A lot of software doesn't recognize the ü, but will recognize Nuernberg.

Just got back from Germany in November...yes go to Nuremburg's Documentation Center and Zepplin Field!! The courtroom was still closed, they said it would be open this year sometime....
Get Rick Steve's 'Germany and Austria' book.