Heil Hitler Episode 6

Do you remember August Landmesser?







little girl


the one one





Landmesser family

August ignored completely the demands of the Nazis.












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Filed under Criminology, History, Politics

26 responses to “Heil Hitler Episode 6

    • I pondered this for quite a while. My conclusion is that their story remains ,and so do their two children, who are living happy lives and making sure that their parents are not forgotten. The people who did all these terrible things are now just dusty skeletons in history’s Museum of the Damned. I reckon that could be a victory for love!

  1. Just one appalling story faithfully recorded. Thanks, John.

  2. An amazing story, John. Thank you for sharing this fascinating, sad story.

  3. Love does conquer hate, but there is always a price to be paid.

    • Indeed there is. All things good seem to depend on the sacrifices of those who fought to get them and those who still give their lives to defend them. Nazis, Islamic terrorists, all those people make us pay a tax in lives to wipe out their cruel ideas.

  4. 3 years for killing 9,000 people. What’s that all about? It’s a truly sad story but one that was repeated over and over again across Germany and Europe during the 1930s and 40s. The Second World War produced some incredible monsters the likes of which I hope we never, ever have to witness again. Fabulously written John.

    • Thank you. The punishment of war criminals after the war seems to have been so pathetic because the Americans wanted to use the Germans to help them fight the evil Russians who were quickly recruited to the list of “mortal enemies who will surely kill us all”. I have seen the figure of 100,000 Germans against whom there was enough evidence to hang the lot. But virtually nothing was ever done against them. Instead, the Americans preferred 1500 war criminals to build rockets for them to defend the US against the Red Menace, so they pardoned all of them. (Operation Paperclip) And recently, they found out that Albert Speer, the nice Nazi, should have been hanged…ironically, just as the Soviets had requested.

  5. Chris Waller

    I have never heard this story before and thank you for bringing it to light. I must confess to a feeling of guilt at my ignorance of Landmesser’s courage. The story is harrowing yet does give one hope that even in the darkest of times there are those prepared to stand fast. As the world seems currently to be descending into a new era of darkness Landmesser’s example becomes all the more pertinent.

    • Thanks a lot for your comment, Chris. It is worrying , of course, when Christians are slaughtered in Iraq simply for being Christians.. French Jews flee in increasing numbers to Britain, scared of the frequency of racist attacks on them. Hopefully though, we will come through all this, as we have before in the face of fascism.

  6. Hopefully the spirit of August Landmesser never dies.

    • No, it doesn’t. ISIS can stamp on it, and the Chinese, and the Russians, and any number of repressive governments but Love grows through their stony pavement, just like those plants you see in car parks.

  7. Yes, love does conquer. But recent events in the USA are scaring.

  8. A tragic story, but so glad so read that their children survived. What a terrible, terrible time. I hope we never go back to that place.

  9. Thank you for posting this John.

  10. It always amazes me how totalitarian regimes don’t like people, but won’t let them emigrate either. I suppose it’s all about control.

    • Absolutely. Control and greed seem to be the motivating forces of many repressive governments. Interestingly, there is the idea put forward quite seriously that Israel has changed for the worse in terms of its unwillingness to compromise because of the advent of Soviet Jews in their thousands when they were finally allowed to leave the USSR. Being isolated, I suppose they were less practiced at achieving compromises.

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