Nuremberg
pronunciation
How to pronounce Nuremberg in British English:
UK [ˈnʊərəmˌbɜ:g, ˈnjʊər-]
How to pronounce Nuremberg in American English:
US [ˈnʊrəmˌbɚɡ, ˈnjʊr-]
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- Noun:
- a city in southeastern Germany; site of Allied trials of Nazi war criminals (1945-46)
Word Origin
- Nuremberg
- city in northern Bavaria, from German Nürnberg, Medieval Latin Norinberga. Second element is Berg "mountain," first element of unknown origin. Associated with the Nazis and site of mass party rallies every September during the Third Reich. The Nuremberg Laws (1935) barred Jews from German citizenship and forbid intermarriage with Aryans. The Nuremberg trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity were held 1945-6.
Example
- 1. The exercise of justice at nuremberg reverberates across this century .
- 2. Their testimony paved the way to nuremberg .
- 3. One of the prisoners was a doctor named katz , of nuremberg .
- 4. If it depends on ancestry , get out that copy of the nuremberg laws .
- 5. Craftsmen have made pencils in stein , near nuremberg , for nearly four centuries .