The tragically powerful story behind the lone German who refused to give Hitler the Nazi salute

Business Insider | 5th November 2015 | Amanda Macias

[the scotsman]

'August Landmesser refused to do the "Sieg Heil" salute during a Nazi rally at the Blohm. Adopted by the Nazi Party in the 1930s, Hitler's infamous "sieg heil" (meaning "hail victory") salute was mandatory for all German citizens as a demonstration of loyalty to the Führer, his party, and his nation.

August Landmesser, the lone German refusing to raise a stiff right arm amid Hitler's presence at a 1936 rally, had been a loyal Nazi.'

[wideawake]

Boy, this is super useful with no link.

[T-Bone Texan]

I’d love a link so as to read further.

[jsanders2001]

I believe this is it. Don't know if the link will work but you can copy and paste it into your browser if it doesn't:

http://www.businessinsider.com/the-lone-german-man-who-refused-to-give-hitler-the-nazi-salute-2015-6

[Patton@Bastogne]

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[al_c]

http://www.businessinsider.com/german-refused-nazi-salute-landmesser

[Eccl 10:2]

http://www.businessinsider.com/german-refused-nazi-salute-landmesser

[Servant of the Cross]

The Missing Link ....!

[VitacoreVision]

The Reichstag fire was an inside job!

[Patton@Bastogne]

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August Landmesser (born 24 May 1910;KIA 17 October 1944; confirmed in 1949) was a worker at the Blohm + Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, best known for his appearance in a photograph refusing to perform the Nazi salute at the launch of the naval training vessel Horst Wessel on 13 June 1936.

He had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman.

He was later imprisoned and eventually drafted into military service, where he was killed in action; Eckler was sent to a concentration camp where she was presumably killed.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser






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[Ouderkirk]

Unfortunately, the story is unremarkable.

Guy falls in love, She’s Jewish. The state denies their marriage, they proceed anyway. He goes to jail/concentration camp. She is arrested and killed. He is conscripted into the army, and goes missing (either he bolted or was fragged). The end.

I was expecting more of a story, how after 70 years, at age (?) he had done this or that, It was a predictable outcome considering the time and place. Doesn’t make it right, but how many others had it worse without the photograph.

[Psalm 144]

Main point sails past.

[OKSooner]

Gee... words fail me.

What about Dietrich Bonhoeffer? Please opine on his story as well.

[Gratia]

The oppressive spirit of forced conformity is alive and well in America: the media, academia, Hollywood, leftist “churches,” unions, and on and on.

[Flick Lives]

Unfortunately, the story is unremarkable. Guy falls in love, She's Jewish. The state denies their marriage, they proceed anyway. He goes to jail/concentration camp. She is arrested and killed.

By your definition, what happened to most Jews in Nazi Germany was "unremarkable".

[reviled downesdad]

Correct the Reichstag fire was orchestrated by Hitler.
The blame if my memory serves was put on a mentally handicapped immigrant.
Hitler used it to set the stage for the night of the long knives, his final coups d’etat and more propaganda for his utterly evil ethnic cleansing and killing of the handicapped.

[charlie72]

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[vladimir998]

Got 13 minutes and 41 seconds? This video is for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu-lC7EJi9Y

[CrazyIvan]

If he were alive today he’d be a “denier”.

[BykrBayb]

The entertainment industry was in its youth back then. Now we have much more remarkable things to watch, like the Kardashians, football games, and American Idol. That whole Holocaust thing was interesting back when people entertained each other by tapping spoons together and rubbing sticks on washboards, but it’s really unremarkable by today’s standards.