[wideawake]

Boy, this is super useful with no link.

[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.

[the scotsman]

Oops.