Between 1945 and 1946, German officials involved in the Holocaust and other war crimes were taken in front of an international tribunal in the Nuremberg Trials.
The Soviet Union had wanted the trials to take place in Berlin, but Nuremberg was chosen as the site for the trials for specific reasons:
The already large courtroom was reasonably easily expanded by the removal of the wall at the end opposite from the bench, thereby incorporating the adjoining room. A large prison was also part of the complex.
The city had been the location of the Nazi Party's Nuremberg rallies; and the laws stripping Jews of their citizenship were passed there; there was symbolic value in making it the place of the Nazi demise.
As a compromise, it was agreed that Berlin would become the permanent seat of the International Military Tribunal and that the first trial would take place in Nuremberg.
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