This striking corridor of white concrete pillars is known as the Straße der Menschenrechte, or the Way of Human Rights. It was designed by Israeli artist Dani Karavan and installed in the late twentieth century. There is a powerful reason why it stands in Nuremberg of all places. It is Nuremberg's way of confronting its own history head-on. This was the city where the Nazis staged their enormous rallies in the early twentieth century, where hundreds of thousands of people gathered on vast parade grounds to create living propaganda. This was the city where, at the climax of the so-called ""Rally of Freedom,"" Hitler summoned the Reichstag to push through a package of anti-Semitic legislation that would become known as the Nuremberg Laws. Here's what those laws did in plain language: The Reich Citizenship Law stripped Jews of German citizenship and reduced them to ""subjects of the state,"" laying the legal groundwork for exclusion from rights and professions. The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor banned marriages and sexual relations between Jews and ""German or related blood,"" barred Jewish households from employing German women under forty-five, and forbade Jews from displaying the national flag. And the Reich Flag Act made the swastika banner the official flag of Germany. In Nuremberg, a handful of laws turned neighbours into non-citizens overnight. Doesn’t this sound tragic and profoundly unfair? By dedicating this prominent street to universal human rights, Nuremberg makes a deliberate and permanent statement about where the city stands today. Each of the thirty pillars is inscribed with one article from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The articles are written in German and in one other language, each pillar featuring a different language from around the world. Walk through slowly and see if you can recognise some of the languages here. The pillars lead towards a large building, the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, which is Germany's largest museum of art and culture. It is worth a visit if you have time after the tour. But for now, let us continue to our next stop. As we continue our tour through Nuremberg's medieval splendour, I want you to keep this question in mind: How did a city famous for imperial order and “German identity” become the perfect stage for the Nazi regime? We'll answer that question piece by piece as we walk. For now, follow the directions on the map to reach our next destination, which is a church. As you make your way to it, listen to the next stop, so that I have already set a context by the time you get there.