Welcome to the interim exhibition in the large exhibition hall of the Documentation Center. You are standing in the Congress Hall, one of the large buildings on the former rally grounds. The Documentation Center is directly integrated into the listed building.

The museum is currently under renovation and the permanent exhibition is closed. In its place, we have curated an interim exhibition, based on current research findings, that narrates the history of the Nazi Party rallies and the site.

This audio guide provides an overview of the five exhibition areas at selected points – the tour starts with the large-format media installation, and goes onto explore the four epochs – from the Weimar Republic up to the present day.

In 1933, the Nazis decided to hold their annual party rallies, attended by up to one million people, in Nuremberg. As venue, they opted for the still largely undeveloped area around Dutzendteich Lake in the south-east of the city.

According to plans by architect Albert Speer, monumental construction projects were launched in 1933 which were to permanently change the recreation area around Dutzendteich Lake. Numerous parade grounds, stadiums and halls were to be built as backdrops for the Nazi propaganda shows. However, at the onset of war, only a fraction of the plans were realised and the grounds were a huge building site. During the war, the former participants' camps in the south were repurposed into camps for prisoners of war and forced labourers.

For decades after 1945, the city sought an appropriate way to deal with these buildings. Some were demolished, while Dutzendteich park was restored to a recreational area. Opened in 2001, the Documentation Center, recounts the history of the site.