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Nürn⋅berg

[nyrn-berk]
–noun
German name of Nuremberg.

Nu⋅rem⋅berg

[noor-uhm-burg, nyoor-]
–noun
a city in central Bavaria, in SE Germany: site of international trials (1945–46) of Nazis accused of war crimes. 471,800.
German, Nürnberg.
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Nu·rem·berg   (nŏŏr'əm-bûrg', nyŏŏr'-)   
A city of southeast Germany north-northwest of Munich. First mentioned in 1050, it became a free imperial city in the 13th century and a center of the German cultural renaissance in the 15th-16th century. From 1933 to 1938 it was the site of annual Nazi party congresses. Largely destroyed in World War II, the city served as the venue for the Allied trials of war criminals (1945-1946). Population: 501,000.
Nürn·berg   (nŏŏrn'běrk', nürn'-)   
See Nuremberg.
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Nuremberg 
Ger. Nürnberg, city in northern Bavaria, associated with the Nazis and site of mass party rallies every September during the Third Reich. The Nuremberg Laws (1935) barred Jews from Ger. citizenship and forbid intermarriage with Aryans. The Nuremberg trials for war crimes and crimes against humanity were held 1945-6.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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