On November 16, 2024, after a screening of the new documentary film Nathan-ism at the Quad Cinema in Manhattan, Professor John Q. Barrett spoke on a panel with the film’s director, Elan Golod, and writer, Laurie Gwen Shapiro.
Nathan-ism is about Nathan Hilu (1926-2019), an American Jew who in 1945-1946 was a U.S. Army soldier assigned to guard defendants at the international trial in Nuremberg of the principal Nazi war criminals. After Nuremberg, Hilu became an “outsider artist” depicting his memories, Nazis, the Holocaust, and trauma.
Professor Barrett is a biographer of Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson, the U.S. chief prosecutor at Nuremberg.
Read Professor Barrett’s Jackson List post about Nathan-ism.