With an indictment issued on October 18, 1945, against 24 war criminals and seven organizations, what was the most significant trial in world history began. Nuremberg, a Bavarian city that was once “one of Europe’s most important trading hubs,” became the hub of a diabolical menace that threatened the very existence of humanity. In the years prior to World War II, Nuremberg was the marshaling place for Nazi propaganda, the site of annual rallies and the means by which Nazi ideals could be spread. Thus, in a symbolic gesture, the Allies chose the location that had once been the rallying place for Nazi propaganda to be the place that marked the “death of Nazi Germany.”