Learn the story of German (August Landsmeer) who refused to salute the Nazi leader Hitler

The image has appeared on top of many websites on the Internet some time ago, and it is famous for carrying one of the most rebellious movements.

We cannot know the large number of men in this picture who were acting out of fear and terror, all of them were very aware that not to greet the Fuhrer is to sign a personal death certificate yourself.

And when you know that the man standing in front of all that crowd is the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, this makes rebellion and rebellion even more impressive, but what may seem like an act stemming from the rebellion and blatant transgression of Nazi principles and symbols was, in fact, derived from love, it was (Auguste Landmser) The man who refused to greet Hitler was married to a Jewish woman.

Auguste Landsmer in his uniform
The story of August Landsmer and his rebel movement against the ruling Nazi party:
In the year 1930, the German economy was suffering and retreating, and the nature of instability that characterized the ruling regime at the time led to its eventual downfall and the rise of the opportunists and their taking over the reins of power in the country, i.e. the emergence of the government of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.

Believing that, with the right connections, he could get a job in the midst of that declining economy, he became a lander of activists in the Nazi party that seemed promising at the time, and he did not know what the future had in store, nor did he know that his heart would soon destroy any progress. He had scored it in his short political sphere.

In 1934, Landmser met (Irma Eckler), a Jewish woman, and the two fell in love with each other, causing his engagement to her engagement a year after their relationship with his expulsion from the Nazi party, and then their marriage request was rejected by the authorities because of the new laws in the system The new ruler.

After that they had a daughter named Ingrid in October of the same year, and two years later, exactly in 1937, the small family made a failed attempt to escape to Denmark, when they were detained at the border level, and they were arrested (August) He was charged with “insulting the Aryan race,” and was immediately imprisoned.

August Landsmer, Erma Eckler and their daughter Ingrid
During the trial, the two claimed not to know the Jewish origins of his beloved (Irma), as she stated that she had been baptized in the Protestant church after her mother married for the second time.

In May 1938, Auguste Square was acquitted for lack of adequate evidence, but this did not discourage the court from issuing a severe warning to him that he would face very severe penalties if he dared to repeat that humiliating behavior.

And the judiciary was at her speech at the time, since just a month later, Auguste was arrested again and sentenced to 30 months' house arrest in a camp camp, and from there he would never see his beloved wife again.

The Augustist Landsmer family

Meanwhile, a law was passed requiring the arrest of Jewish wives of German men who “desecrate and insult race”, and from that (Irma) was arrested by the Gestapo (the Nazi secret police) and taken to many prisons, detention camps, and camps, where She gave birth to Eren, her second daughter from Auguste.

Both children were sent to an orphanage, although the child (Ingrid) was spared a worse fate because her condition made her half Aryan (from a German father), so she was sent to live with her Aryan grandparents.

As for Eren (the second daughter who was born in the camp, the authorities suspected that her father was August), she was retrieved from the orphan and then sent to the camps, where she was recognized by a family friend, who smuggled her to Austria to one of her acquaintances to take care of her.

(Erin's) return to Germany, she was again hidden, this time in a hospital where she claimed that her official documents had been lost, which allowed her to live under the noses of her persecuted until they were defeated.

Auguste Landsmer Eren Foster
However, the story of their mother is more sad and tragic, while her two daughters were driven from orphanages to detention camps, to shelters, Erma died in 1942 in the gas chamber in Bernberg.
Auguste was released in 1941, and then he began working as a worker, two years later, and when the German army was engulfed in the desperate conditions that surrounded it, Landmesser and his thousands of other men were forced into the infantry division, where he lost in Croatia and was considered dead before Six months after Nazi Germany surrendered to the Allied powers.

It is believed that this famous image circulated today is taken in the year 1936 on the thirteenth of June, when Auguste Landmesser was working in a factory (Blohm + Voss), and when he still had a family back in the evening, and on that day The picture was taken, and workers were surprised to see the Nazi leader Hitler The Fuhrer himself before them.

It also seems that Landmser found himself unable to salute the man who rose; he continued, publicly insulting his wife and daughter and considered them non-human, and many people like them, only to return at home in the evening to accept them.
Certainly, Landmser was aware of the presence of Hitler's propaganda photographers, but he acted as his conscience dictated him though, so at that moment all his thinking was about his family only.