Part of most tourists' fun in quaint old Nuremberg is shuddering at the medieval torture instruments in its thick-walled Burg (citadel). Last week Nuremberg Storm Troopers revived a medieval custom. They seized a woman convicted of mistreating her stepchild, drove her through the streets with a placard around her neck reading, "I am a liar and an unnatural mother!" Nurembergers guffawed. Two pictures of the driven woman were printed with approving comments by the local Nazi newsorgan Fränkische Zeitung. The Storm Troopers looked around for another woman to drive in medieval fashion...
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