Wednesday, July 1, 2015

The inside story

A cropped and enlarged photo of a man, refusing to give the Nazi salute, has been floating around the internet for some time (usually as a symbol of resistance against political correctness). Typically, the internet photo exhorts us to “Be this guy”.

His name was August Landmesser, and his story was interesting and tragic.

2 comments:

missred said...

Interesting and tragic are perfect words to describe their story. I am sure they were not alone.

JeffS said...

There many people like Herr Landmesser back then. If only more people were like him today ... ... ...