In the centre of Nuremberg, home of the National Socialist Party in the 1940s and the site of
subsequent war trials, there is a partially completed group of Nazi monuments: a coliseum, a parade ground and a huge stadium.
Bryan himself was a champion of the common man, and had actually supported two of the ACLU's earlier campaigns against threats to individual liberty» superpatriotism during World
War I and cutthroat capitalism afterward» but the Scopes
Trial and the
subsequent treatment of it made him anathema to most of the liberal bien pensant left.