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 the middle of the devastated city, the Allies (UK, US, Soviet Union, and China) prepared a courtroom because they believed that law, not vengeance, should be the first thing rebuilt after the apocalypse.

In 2025, the world

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