Rise of the Nazi Police System: Reich, Resistance, and the Machinery of Total Control
Global Field Seminar Route

The interactive map below traces the route of the Rise of the Nazi Police System global field seminar, following our journey from Munich to Nuremberg and onward to Prague. Use the map to zoom out and situate the region within Central Europe, or zoom in to explore the cities, memorial sites, and historic districts that anchor our study of authoritarian power, resistance, and justice.

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Munich serves as our starting point, a city where architecture, emergency law, and political spectacle converged to help consolidate the Nazi police state. From there, we travel north to Nuremberg, where monumental rally grounds once staged mass mobilization and where Courtroom 600 later became a symbol of international legal reckoning. Our journey concludes in Prague, capital of the former Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, where we examine occupation, resistance, collective punishment, and the complex transition from Nazi to Soviet control.

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The route itself mirrors the seminar’s intellectual arc: it moves from consolidation of power, to spectacle, to accountability, and finally to resistance and regime transition across cities that today stand as vibrant centers of democratic life and open civic exchange.