On March 3rd, Professor John Q. Barrett delivered a lecture, “Nuremberg ‘Remembered by Our Children with Pride’: World War II Victors’ Choices to Heed Conscience, Conduct Fair Trials of Nazi War Criminals, and Leave Clear Records,” at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Sommerhauser Symposium on Holocaust Education.

The 2025 Sommerhauser Symposium topic was “Transitional Justice Revisited: From the Nuremberg Trials to the Present.” Other speakers were Peter Black (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum historian), Michael J. Kelly (Creighton University), Roland Kostic (Uppsala University), Julia Reilly (Nebraska-Lincoln), Dawne Curry (Nebraska-Lincoln), Doyle Stevick (University of South Carolina), Mark Gudgel (College of St. Mary), and Goran Miljan (Uppsala).

In 2026, the University of Nebraska Press will publish a book of these symposium papers and proceedings.