These pictures aren't presented in the order they were taken on the tour, but in a logical progression by subject. On the tour we first visited this site, the Zeppelin Grand Stand in the early afternoon. However we only got off the bus long enough for our guide to give us some brief explanation and to get a quick photo, before getting back on the bus. I insisted that I simply couldn't be in Nuremberg, at this site, and not get a photo of myself standing on the review platform. By the time we got back to our hotel it was early evening, and my parents didn't want to trek back out to the Grand Stand. So I got a cab on my own, and asked a couple of young guys (who were standing around working on the car pictured on the lower left of this photo) in my broken German to take a photo of me on the stand.

later in the day

The cab ride was actually rather nice. I was able to converse, albeit haltingly, with the cab driver lady. When I indicated I wanted to come to the Zeppelin Field, she also pointed out the Congress Hall and several other Nazi buildings on the way over. On the trip back to the hotel she asked me if I was a "reiner Amerikaner" (pure/native American), and I replied that my grandparents had emigrated from Germany and that we were going to visit their hometowns later on the trip.

My dad remarked what a contrast this was to when he was in Germany while he was in the Army in the late 50s. He said that he and a friend had tried to visit Hitler's retreat, the "Eagle's Nest" near Berchtesgaden, but when asking directions from locals they would pretend not to have heard of it or know where it was. Perhaps having lived through the war they wished to put it behind them. My driver was of a different generation, I guess.