More than 80 days ago, I reached Cologne. And now again, it’s the Carneval City to which I’ve returned to put a final bow tie on this 90-day summer of `25 jaunt.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 3 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
At the north end of Nuremberg’s Old Town is the Imperial Castle on top of a sandstone mount. An initial structure goes back to the 12th-century CE, but much of the castle appeared in the 15th-century. As an independent Imperial city, Nuremberg had been a safe place to store the jewels of the Holy Roman Empire jewels; these are now in the Hofburg Schatzkammer (Treasury Vault) in Vienna. In ruins after the Second World War, the post-war era saw a rebuild of town and castle, and the 21st-century version of the Kaiserburg is a snapshot of not only about grandeur, but also the importance Nuremberg held in the Empire.
I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 2 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
There was a time I didn’t think I’d be a fan of trains. I’m glad I was wrong, helped in large part to living and visiting Germany over much of the last 25 years.
Nuremberg’s Transport Museum includes the Deutsche Bahn (DB) Museum and the Museum of Communication. I spent the better part of Friday afternoon, learning and gathering bits and pieces on German rail.
I received neither support nor compensation for the present piece. I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 1 August 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
In the 1970s, West Germany experienced inner unrest and great confusion: was there “law and order”, was there a “police state”. The questions and answers depended partly upon political spectrum and age. To quote the information panel provided by the Neue Nationalgalerie (New National Gallery):
… In West Gernany, the armed struggle of individual political groups like the Red Army Faction (RAF) leads to widespread public debate. After kidnappings and terrorist attacks by the RAF, the West German government establishes the GSG 9, a special police unit charged with protection and enforcing order. Artist Katharina Sieverding uses a press photo of the GSG 9 to give the image a new and critically charged meaning. In her piece “Battlefield Germany”, the police appear threatening, suggesting the process of becoming a state governed by violence.
I made the image above on 22 May 2025 with a Fujifilm X70 fixed-lens prime and these settings: 1/60-sec, f/5.6, ISO2500, and 18.5/28mm focal length. This post appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com as https://wp.me/p1BIdT-vsX.
There’s a courtroom I’ve wanted to visit for a very long time. On return to Nuremberg after 22 years, I’m taking full advantage of the opportunity.
After the conclusion of World War 2, the four Allied powers agreed to put key Nazi perpetrators on trial which began in November 1945 and ended in October 1946. The Nuremberg Trials became the first international war crimes tribunal in history.
The famous venue, Schwurgerichtssaal 600 (Courtroom 600), remained an active courtroom at Nuremberg’s Palace of Justice until 2020. The courtroom is now a part of the museum Memorium Nuremberg Trials housed in the same building.
On 21 November 1945, Robert H. Jackson, the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, gave his opening statement, which remains as one of the most influential speeches about the emergent principles and applications of international criminal law in the post-war era. His statement began with:
The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we seek to condemn and punish, have been so calculated, so malignant, and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.
• US National WW Museum: 2020 article.
• Robert H Jackson Center: YouTube.
I received neither support nor compensation for the present piece. I made all images above with an iPhone15 on 31 July 2025. This post composed within Jetpack for iOS appears on Fotoeins Fotografie at fotoeins DOT com.
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