Blickwinkel Tour
Historical-political education at the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg — tangible on a roughly 90-minute bus tour with VR headsets and tablets.
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Where history becomes tangible
Blickwinkel Tour delivers historical-political education where it becomes tangible: at the former Nazi Party Rally Grounds in Nuremberg.
On a roughly 90-minute bus tour, continuously accompanied by trained guides, VR headsets and tablets make the vast scale of partly unfinished, partly lost structures comprehensible.
Participants can grasp how this architecture was meant to make the individual feel small and the regime overpowering — propaganda becomes tangible through lived experience and therefore easier to see through.
Visualisations based on historical plans and developed with scientific partners are deliberately abstracted but not falsified, and are placed in didactic context with critical reflection. The pedagogical concept was developed in collaboration with Geschichte für Alle (GfA).
Today Blickwinkel Tour is an established guided experience, organised and led by the history association — on Splexit technology reliable enough in everyday operation that the tour is built on it long term. The reviews speak for themselves.
Challenge
Today the site is mostly ruins, foundations and empty spaces — the monumental impact of Nazi architecture is hard to grasp without support.
Classic guided tours can describe what was planned or lost. But the propagandistic intent — to make the individual feel small and the regime overpowering — stays abstract until those dimensions can be experienced physically.
VR, tablet and guided tour
Technology serves presentation — synchronised on the bus, at the original site, accompanied by trained guides.
- VR headset: make the scale of monumental structures tangible in the body
- Tablet: panoramas, 3D overlays and historical context during the ride
- Guided bus tour: one control point, one shared experience for the whole group
- Visualisations based on historical plans — abstracted, scientifically grounded, didactically framed
Splexit provides the technical infrastructure for synchronised guided presentation: guides control stations from the tablet, all participants experience the same scene in VR — directly at the Nazi Party Rally Grounds.
Outcome
- Propaganda is not only explained but experienced — and therefore easier to see through
- Historical-political education at an authentic site, not in the classroom alone
- Pedagogical concept with GfA — today an established tour, organised and led by the history association
- Splexit in regular operation: reliable guided presentation on the bus — tour reviews confirm everyday use
- Critical reflection built in: visualisations deliberately abstracted, scientifically grounded and didactically framed
- A model for guided VR tours in sensitive educational contexts — from school groups to adult education
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