Restorative Justice
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Can you forgive the people who destroyed your world?
Parents who lost children to a drunk driver and a gunman chose mercy over revenge. Their choices echo the Nuremberg interpreter who, concealing his Jewish identity, walked a Nazi propagandist to the gallows with compassion rather than contempt.
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It took three times in a darkened theatre
Something about Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg wouldn’t release its grip. I returned twice more, each viewing peeling back another layer of certainty about justice, morality, and the convenient distance we imagine separates us from history’s villains. By the third screening, I understood my discomfort completely.
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