This picture is now celebrated around the world as a man (believed to be August Landmesser, 26 years old at the time) refused to participate in a Nazi salute despite everyone else doing so.
It’s a celebrated demonstration of defiance against one of the most evil ideologies in history, and we all want to believe that we would ‘be that guy’.
But here’s the kicker…
this was taken in 1936…
5 years BEFORE the start of the ‘final solution’
3 years BEFORE the start of WWII
2 years BEFORE Hiitler was named Time Magazine man of the year
The same year that Germany hosted the Olympics.
Just 2 years after the ‘enabling act’.
August Landmesser didn’t refuse because of the atrocities being committed… that hadn’t really started to happen yet. He refused to salute because he recognised who Hitler was BEFORE his true nature had been revealed to the world.
He saw the division, the hatred, the concentration of power, and he understood what he was looking at.
Most others didn’t begin to wake up till war broke out, and still many more refused to believe the atrocities being committed until the war was basically over. Don’t forget that the US were continuing to refuse Jewish refugees even in the 1940s!
August had actually been a member of the Nazi Party for 2 years, something that was very much expected of a Shipyard Worker at the time. Indeed it was expected of ALL workers, the Nazi Party were the ‘workers party’ after all!
August met a jewish woman named Irma Eckler in 1933 and married her in 1935, a forbidden union under the Nuremberg Laws at the time. He was kicked out of the Nazi party for his ‘crime’ and ordered never to see her again.
But Good People Break Bad Laws.
Remember that in 1936 Hitler was popular around the world, antisemitism was rife and quite normal, eugenics was fashionable among the wealthy and educated elite throughout Europe and the Anglosphere…
Can you imagine what people were saying to him at the time? The names he would have been called? The friendships he would have lost? The well-meaning people who loved and cared about him who would have urged him to stop being so foolish and just go along with it all?
“What good will it do?”
“You’ll just get yourself into trouble.”
“Think of your family.”
“Why are you causing trouble?”
“You should be grateful for what Hitler has done for us!!!”
“I can’t be associated with you if you’re going to be like this.”
Look at that picture again. Every single person in that photo is now dead. And if not for August Landmesser, not one of us would ever have seen that photo. There are countless photos showing a mass of deluded people obeying their government and saluting… You’ve seen THIS one because he refused.
August died in combat in October 1944, having been arrested and pressed into military service for the failing Nazi regime.
Irma had already been murdered by the regime in 1942.
They left behind 2 daughters, one of whom August never even saw because she was born after his incarceration.
So you think you want to ‘be that guy’? Cool story.
That means taking a stand BEFORE everyone else is doing it.
That means recognising the disease, not simply reacting to the symptoms.
That means being willing to pay the price, ANY price, for what you believe is right.
I consider it to be one of my crowning achievements in life that I began calling out Daniel Andrews and warning against his concentration of power in March 2020. Long before he attempted his ‘enabling act’. Long before the lockdowns had caused the devastation we’ve seen since. Long before the segregation and division of his mandates.
I copped no shortage of abuse, lost a bunch of ‘friends’, and had many well meaning people try to talk me down.
But look at what I said back then, look at where we are now, and tell me I was wrong. I dare you.
Now I’m not saying that I am August Landmesser. Nor am I saying that Daniel Andrews will ever go on to commit the atrocities we saw from Hitler.
What I’m saying is that I recognise the disease… the division, the hatred, the concentration of power… And I believe that every single one of us has a responsibility to act while it’s still possible to act… to nip this in the bud, before this hatred and division has a chance to fully flower in the hands of an all-powerful narcissist.
And I’ll also say this: I feel like I’ve passed a test.
I may be wrong about Daniel Andrews but I now know for a fact that if I’d lived in Germany in the 1930s, I would have been on the right side of history.
I’m ‘that guy’.
How about you?
It sucks to be right early, but it’s always worth it in the end.
Good People Break Bad Laws.
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Hi Topher,
I would say that with the Authorised Workers List in Victoria, Daniel Andrews has already participated in massive crimes against humanity because a significant percentage of the working population have been coerced into being vaccinated against their will, without true and honest informed consent, all because they have their own and their family’s livelihood at stake. The consequences of this mass forced vaccination program, in Victoria, Australia and across the globe are already heinous. The long term effects over the next 5-10 years I sincerely believe will be catastrophic. The reasons for this campaign? Greed and power at unprecedented levels, combined with Big Tech, Big Media, Big Pharma, Big Oil, Big Food, Big Politics, Big Anything. This is a global plan, orchestrated to the nth degree, and carried out brilliantly after decades of planning.
We, the people of Earth, need to awaken. We can’t force others to however, which is frustrating and very sad.
However, all who awaken, will become a force that cannot be coerced, manipulated, or led astray. We shall counter their lies with truth. We will refuse to mask, vaccinate, test, QR, or anything else they suggest for the ‘good’ of the community. Yes, we will suffer. However, we must never surrender. Where’s Winston when we need him? He’s gone, so it’s up to us now. But we are not alone. There is still a Kennedy (Robert) carrying the torch after his uncle, JFK, and he has just published a 450 page book against Fauci, and all he and his global collaborators and conspirators have cooked up for us. Can’t wait to read it. Of course it will be heavy, yet I am certain from various reports that R. Kennedy is a truth seeker, and needed 450 pages to get to the bottom of the swamp.
We have each other for support.
We will not be divided. We will become truly inclusive. We will commune.
Take heart. Take courage.
Blessings to all.