Question

Which was the MOST "symbolic" reason that Nuremberg was selected for the location of the "Trial of the Major War Criminals" following World War II?

Answer 1

The correct answer is: "Due to the Nuremberg Laws"

During WWII, the German Nazy party headed by Hitler conducted the Holocaust against the Jewish, through which they aimed to exterminate them all. Crimes related to the Holocaust, which were considered crimes against humanity, were mostly imputed to those major war criminals.

Explicit legal discriminations against the Jewish population started in 1935 with the enactment of the Nuremberg Laws that considered them second-class citizens and that aimed to protect the purity of the German Blood, for example, by prohibiting marriages between Jewish and German people. From that moment on, discriminative regulations, progroms, establishment of ghettos and finally, mass-murders and extermination, were performed by the Nazis against the Jews.

Answer 2

The most typical reason that Nuremberg was chosen for the area of the trial of the major war criminals that was taking after world war 2 is that Nuremberg is viewed as the stylized origin of the Nazi party.