The perception of the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds is still influenced by images of the grand theatricality of the Nazi Party rallies. The focus is on the large buildings, some of which remain unfinished. On the other hand, buildings and structures that could tell us something about the history of the site during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared. The last remaining building is the Märzfeld train station, now fenced in and partly overgrown. It is a reminder that the Nazi Party Rally Grounds were also a scene of Nazi crimes and violence, a place of individual suffering. As well as its significance as a central station for the arrival and departure of many thousands of prisoners of war and forced labourers, the deportation of more than 2,000 Jews from Franconia to death camps and ghettos in the East makes Märzfeld train station an important place of remembrance. The sites of suffering, such as the deportation assembly camp, the sprawling prisoner of war camp and the forced labour camps, have now been built over and are no longer there. They are now replaced by the Langwasser district. Commemorative plaques are rare, and the first exhibition at the Documentation Centre did not adequately address this part of the site’s history. Filling this gap has been an integral part of the Documentation Centre’s work for a number of years.

In 2017, the publication The Nazi Party Rally Grounds in the War: Captivity, Mass Murder and Forced Labour and the web presentation Langwasser Camp completed an international research project funded by the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future. More than 45,000 visitors saw the results in a special exhibition at the Documentation Centre in 2019 and 2020. An initial educational programme offers young people the opportunity to learn about the history of violence at the site and in the urban area in general. Participants’ intensive engagement with individual biographies will highlight the scale of the Nazi use of forced labour and the racist way in which people were treated. The recently developed app about the site also includes the former camp structure and the issue of forced labour. In addition, parts of the last remaining architectural testimony to the site's history of violence, the Märzfeld train station, are to be converted into an appropriate information centre and place of remembrance and learning by 2025.

Building on these established formats, the Documentation Centre, together with the city’s community and in its educational work, intends to develop further in this direction and, in close cooperation with other institutions, to find suitable contemporary formats to bring the history of violence on the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds much more into the public eye.