Courtroom 600 - Project "Memorial Nuremberg Trials"

In September 2005, Nuremberg Municipal Museums presented a proposal, worked out with the Upper Regional Court and the State Office for Structural Engineering, to the Board of Trustees of the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds. The Board of Trustees unanimously welcomed this project. In October 2005, it requested that the Federal Republic of Germany, the Free State of Bavaria and the City of Nuremberg should promote the implementation of the project. A first feasibility study estimated the cost of the projected memorial at four million Euros. In July 2007, the Federal Republic and the Free State of Bavaria, undertook to share the building cost, and finance for the project was secured.

The City of Nuremberg will fund the creation of the permanent exhibition and bear the running costs. After establishing the Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds, the inauguration of the Way of Human Rights and the presentation of the International Human Rights Award, the City thus opens a further chapter in dealing with its National Socialist past.