Ordinary people. The courage to say no.
The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowed, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman.
We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.
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Publicity shot of fine juvenile actors Jackie Cooper, Mickey Rooney, and Freddie Bartholomew.
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Fifty years ago, Jessie Carter Brohson (second from right) posed with the original group of eight that became the first women airline stewardesses. All were registered nurses, a requirement in those days. Mrs. Bronson, now retired in Hawaii, flew the run from San Francisco to Cheyenne. (1930, San Francisco)” © Bettmann/CORBIS
Young nuns on way to mass. Photograph by Alfred Eisenstaedt. Turin, Italy, 1934.
