紐倫堡是中世紀多位德意志皇帝誕生和居住的城市，有濃厚的歷史氣息，曾經是德意志的玩具製造中心，被稱作是歐洲的「玩具都城」（Toy capital）。目前市內仍有別具特色的玩具博物館，而每年在此地所舉辦的紐倫堡國際玩具展（Nuremberg International Toy Fair），也是玩具產業最重要的商展之一。

歷史上，紐倫堡是「德意志民族神聖羅馬帝國」皇帝直轄的統治中心城市之一。使紐倫堡在納粹德國時代成為納粹黨一年一度的黨代會會址，紐倫堡在希特勒德國時代風光無限，並因此使該城淪為英美盟軍的重點轟炸對象，頗具中世紀古風的老城區就此夷為平地，雖戰後重建，亦不復當年風采。第三帝國著名的反猶太紐倫堡法案就是在此處出爐的，掀起了種族清洗的風浪。

第二次世界大戰後的清算納粹戰犯罪行的紐倫堡審判是在此舉行的。

 美國尼克森政府的國務卿亨利·基辛格出生於紐倫堡的姊妹城市福爾特，因為是猶太裔，逃避納粹迫害舉家前往美國.

Nuremberg held great significance during the Nazi Germany era. Because of the city's relevance to the Holy Roman Empire and its position in the centre of Germany, the Nazi Party chose the city to be the site of huge Nazi Party conventions – the Nuremberg rallies. The rallies were held 1927, 1929 and annually 1933-1938 in Nuremberg. After Adolf Hitler's rise to power in 1933 the Nuremberg rallies became huge Nazi propaganda events, a centre of Nazi ideals. The 1934 rally was filmed by Leni Riefenstahl, and made into a propaganda film called Triumph des Willens (Triumph of the Will). At the 1935 rally, Hitler specifically ordered the Reichstag to convene at Nuremberg to pass the anti-Semitic Nuremberg Laws which revoked German citizenship for all Jews and other non-Aryans. A number of premises were constructed solely for these assemblies, some of which were not finished. Today many examples of Nazi architecture can still be seen in the city. The city was also the home of the Nazi propagandist Julius Streicher, the publisher of Der Stürmer.

During the Second World War, Nuremberg was the headquarters of Wehrkreis (military district) XIII, and an important site for military production, including aircraft, submarines and tank engines. A subcamp of Flossenbürg concentration camp was located here. Extensive use was made of slave labour.^[9] The city was severely damaged in Allied strategic bombing from 1943–45. On 29 March 1944, RAF endured its heaviest losses in the bombing campaign of Germany. Out of more than 700 planes participating, 106 were shot down or crash landed on the way home to their base, and more than 700 men were missing, as many as 545 of them dead. More than 160 became prisoners of war.^[10] On 2 January 1945, the medieval city centre was systematically bombed by the Royal Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Forces and about ninety percent of it was destroyed in only one hour, with 1,800 residents killed and roughly 100,000 displaced. In February 1945, additional attacks followed. In total, about 6,000 Nuremberg residents are estimated to have been killed in air raids.

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德國紐倫堡——在這座城市，曾經是納粹黨希特勒的集會地，也是納粹德國留下的最大一塊地標，正隨着時間的推移成為一個愈發沉重的負擔。當地的議會正蘊釀慾拆除納粹黨的集會場地相信定會引起諸多議論其次是它麻煩的歷史，以及一個遠更棘手的問題：如何對待這些建築？但是暗地裡極右派組織的"新納粹聯盟"NZU正商討對策以及募集資金成立基金會,企圖收購這些納粹黨歷史遺產?紐倫堡大審納粹黨人戰犯已經過去,但是歷史可能重演,人類自古以來,好像都是重返歷史事件,否則沒有歷史紀錄?筆者的友人在深秋的季節因恰公來到紐倫堡與筆者閒話家常

「它們不僅僅是歷史遺迹，」納粹黨的希特勒,在此地舉行過多數的閱兵誓師大會,要將德國建設成為第三帝國統一歐洲.而如今已是歷史事件日耳曼民族在世界近代史上留下不光彩的一頁,德國在第二次世界大戰之後重新開發建設,東西德統一以後經濟,政治,外交突起,又要躍升為世界第二大經濟體,在歐盟居領導地位,可見日耳曼民族的優秀,無怪於當時的魔王希特勒要搞種族優生運動,大肆繁殖優秀的日耳曼人民,統治歐洲,消滅其他弱小民族,尤其甚者就是猶太人,結果是希特勒自己消滅了自己不是嗎?