I had expected the Palace of Justice to be in the city centre, but in fact it was nearly a mile away. The building was a prison from 1920, and in the dark it looked quite forbidding - Court Room 600, where the famous trials took place, is still used as a court. Two photos from late 1945 show the East Wing as it was, and the one between them as it is now. It was chosen as the site of the trials because the Nazis' laws on Jews, gypsies, homosexuals and the handicapped were promulgated here in the late 1930s.
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