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The tragically powerful story behind the lone German who refused to give Hitler the Nazi salute
Business Insider | 5th November 2015 | Amanda Macias

Posted on 11/05/2015 4:17:17 AM PST by 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.'


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Germany
KEYWORDS: augustlandmesser; hitler; landmesser; nazi; nazis; nazism
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I guess I should have included a sarcasm tag.


21 posted on 11/05/2015 5:58:07 AM PST by BykrBayb (Lung cancer free since 11/9/07. Colon cancer free since 7/7/15. ~ Þ)
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To: reviled downesdad

Your memory need a little refreshing....

https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&gws_rd=ssl#q=Reichstag+fire


22 posted on 11/05/2015 6:15:29 AM PST by Las Vegas Ron ("Medicine is the keystone in the arch of Socialism" Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Patton@Bastogne

The way the dems are going against the grain and calling for more gun control and even confiscation, I wouldn’t be surprised if there is one or more Kenya type mall attacks on Black Friday.


23 posted on 11/05/2015 6:41:37 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

“I will not be Heiled in my own house.” - Capt. Von Trapp.


24 posted on 11/05/2015 6:50:15 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: massgopguy
Why does a land locked country like Austria have a Navy at all?

If you made a movie about a 40ish man making love to his 18 year old ex-nun (hired) nanny you'd have top make it R rated.

25 posted on 11/05/2015 6:54:06 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: miele man

bookmark


26 posted on 11/05/2015 6:54:30 AM PST by miele man
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To: central_va

Von Trapp was a WWI submarine ace/hero in the Austro-Hungarian Navy!


27 posted on 11/05/2015 7:03:30 AM PST by Reily
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To: massgopguy

I met a Holocaust survivor at the Astrohall gun show in Houston late 1993 or early 1994.

He told me and anyone else that wanted to listen the Clintons were taking the country into Nazism not communism.

He also had no doubt the Clintons were in bed with the muslim terrorist which bombed the WTC.

Everything is proving him right.


28 posted on 11/05/2015 7:14:32 AM PST by IMR 4350
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To: the scotsman

Won’t be long before the Germans will be wanting the Nazi’s back. Only this time the ovens will roasting a different ethnic group.

Seriously, all this chaos being imported to the European nations opens them all up for some kind of dictatorship that will wipe out the muzzies (a good thing) but also lock down the remaining populations freedom.

Just what is the difference between the pre-Hitler Germany devastated by the WWI peace agreements than today’s Germany being decimated by the influx muzzies? There will be civil unrest and disorder, the economy will go south, traditional German rights (beer drinking and hot women) will be outlawed by Sharia law. There will be little left that is good for the traditional German.


29 posted on 11/05/2015 7:34:45 AM PST by redfreedom (Voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil.)
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To: Flick Lives

According to the picture those saluting make those who accept the mark of the beast unremarkable, too.


30 posted on 11/05/2015 7:45:05 AM PST by huldah1776
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To: VitacoreVision
The Reichstag fire was an inside job!

Awaiting the first "So was 9/11" response in 3...2...1...

31 posted on 11/05/2015 8:02:22 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: central_va
Why does a land locked country like Austria have a Navy at all?

A professor I had once came to class remarking that he had seen a large ship with "Wien" on it, expressing surprise that the Danube was navigable by such a large ship so far upstream. I never followed this up.

Apparently Austria once has a coastline and even controlled Venice. It's borders and most of its Navy were taken away after WWI. But at various times since it had a small vestigial navy (a few patrol boats on the Danube). But this ended in 2006:

The Final end of the Austrian Navy

32 posted on 11/05/2015 8:14:08 AM PST by wideminded
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To: wideawake

Oops.


33 posted on 11/05/2015 8:25:23 AM PST by the scotsman
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To: OKSooner

That I found the story unremarkable is not in any way diminishing the magnitude of what happened to these people. My point was that this was but one, of many such stories, all as heinous, or in cases where there were no witnesses, much worse.

We never did find out what happened to August in the end and I guess that’s why I didn’t see this story as a big thing. We can surmise he met his fate, at the hands of the Nazi’s but even that is unclear. I was expecting to read that he somehow survived, and went on to live out the rest of his days in relative peace.


34 posted on 11/05/2015 2:18:11 PM PST by Ouderkirk (To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
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To: Ouderkirk

Okay, thanks for the answer.


35 posted on 11/05/2015 2:28:38 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: Las Vegas Ron

Eric Metaxis does a lot of research in his Bonhoeffer biography. Lay’s out some compelling evidence for the Nazi’s being behind the fire. It’s consistent with Hitler’s behavior, for example, how he sent polish prisoners to polish/german border post and dressed them in German uniforms and shot them all. It was the propaganda Hitler needed to invade Poland.


36 posted on 11/06/2015 8:20:32 AM PST by reviled downesdad (Mother Teresa on abortion: "It's poverty that children must die so people can live as they choose")
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To: the scotsman

One the movie scenes that always sticks with me is the “Tomorrow Belongs to Me” scene from Cabaret. Everyone joins in and starts singing, except for one poor old man who looks around horrified at what he sees happening, but is completely helpless to stop it.


37 posted on 11/06/2015 8:28:30 AM PST by dfwgator
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