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A chart showing the classification of Jewish people and marriage restrictions in Nazi Germany after the Nuremberg Laws were passed in September 1935.

A 1938 photograph showing Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) in Nuremberg wearing the uniform of the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP). (Imperial War Museums)

A 1929 colourised photograph showing a march in Nuremberg by the Sturmabteilung (SA), the paramilitary wing of the German Nazi Party (NSDAP). (German Federal Archives)

A 1936 German postcard showing the coat of arms and castle of Nuremberg and a member of the Hitler Youth, a Nazi youth organization founded in 1922.

The corpse of Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) who was found guitly of war crimes and hanged 16 October 1946 after the Nuremberg Trials (1945-46).