The first time you picture Nuremberg in Germany, imagine a city still smelling of ash, of the Holocaust. World War 2 had ended only months earlier, in September 1945. Buildings lay open like cracked bones. Europe was trying to remember how to breathe. It was also the same city where, just a decade earlier in 1935, the Nuremberg Laws had been written — the legal code that stripped German Jews of citizenship and banned marriage between Jews and non-Jews. The city that once made discrimination legal now became the place where the world put that entire system on trial. In...