August Landmesser

✶May 24, 1910

†October 17, 1944

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About their life

August Landmesser was a German man who 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.

German shipyard worker and anti-Nazi protester (1910–1944)

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