Winner of the 2016 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
A profound and profoundly important book—a moving personal detective story, an
uncovering of secret pasts, and a book that explores the creation and
development of world-changing legal concepts that came about as a result of the
unprecedented atrocities of Hitler's Third Reich.
East West Streetlooks at the personal and intellectual evolution of the two men
who simultaneously originated the ideas of "genocide" and "crimes against
humanity," both of whom, not knowing the other, studied at the same university
with the same professors, in a city little known today that was a major cultural
center of Europe, "the little Paris