August Landmesser (24 May 1910 – 17 October 1944) was a worker at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany. He is known as the possible identity of a man appearing in a 1936 photograph, conspicuously refusing to perform the Nazi salute with the other workers. Landmesser had run afoul of the Nazi Party over his unlawful relationship with Irma Eckler, a Jewish woman. Later, he was imprisoned and eventually, he was drafted into penal military service, where he was killed in action.
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24 May 1910 Moorrege, Schleswig-Holstein, German Empire
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Died |
17 October 1944 (aged 34) Ston, Croatia
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Zodiac | Gemini |
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