A Rare Photograph
A Lone Man Refusing To Do The Nazi Salute in 1936.
August Landmesser (May 24, 1910 – October 17, 944) is suggested to be the man appearing in a 1936 photograph conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute.
Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman.
For this, he was imprisoned and eventually drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action.
Years after his death, his daughter suggested that he was the man in the famous photograph.
However, the identity of the man in the photograph is not known with certainty—another family claims that the man is Gustav Wegert.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Landmesser
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