The power to say no when everyone says yes

WolweraZ · 3 months

Actually, no one can exactly say who this man is. Irene Eckler says this is her father August Landmesser, but another Family believes that this is Gustav Wegert, who worked at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg at the time that this picture was taken. He was a deeply religious person and therefore he did not want to give the „Hitlergruß“. Nevertheless, both stories come to the same moral. I have this picture on the Wall above my Computer and I find it to be really inspiring. Have an upvote!

Flapjack_ · 3 months

"I sure like this Hitler fella too bad my arms are too tired to do this swell salute he came up with for us"

ememdiputs · 3 months

On reddit, this person would have been downvoted and no one would have ever known he existed.

Tennysonn · 3 months

I was trying to find a picture of this without the circle to maybe print and hang or something...then I realized how important it was people who have never seen it before that the circle be there

skywalker777 · 3 months

"ya, you know, i just can't get behind this guy for some reason."

rtilde · 3 months

Wolfgang felt like a fool when he noticed he was the only one in the crowd that didn't know the way to the post office.

PercyChuggs · 3 months

Good to see Babe Ruth had some morals.

Kukko18 · 3 months

"One of the things people always forget is that the first country the Nazis invaded was their own"

gbimmer · 3 months

'Tis a great way to commit suicide.

andrewsmith1986 · 3 months

Landmesser was charged and found guilty of “dishonoring the race” under Nazi racial laws in July 1937.

wahinelf · 3 months

The kid behind him cracks me up. Just resting his arm.

9bowlsofsoup · 3 months

So much upvotes, but one guy just didn't get the joke.

Random · 3 months

We all think 'wow, brave.' Certainly I think that.

And then we go back to being part of the vast vast majority of people who let our rights be eroded on a daily basis.

I remember in psych class one day the prof told us about an experiment done to examine the psychology of prison camp guards. The experiment found that a huge percent of people will go along with harming another human being as long as they are told that they have no personal responsibility. Then he asked us, as a class, which of us would rebel. We all thought we would be the exception.

The point being, most of us, in that setting and in that culture of fear, would not be that guy.

Something to think about next time you have a chance to stand against the particular tyrannies of your own country.

CurkyHangles · 3 months

WWII hipster... disliked the Nazi party before it was cool.

numba1dmxfan · 3 months

This is what I feel like when thinking TDKR was nothing special.

Bruyn · 3 months

This is by far the most inspiring photo I have seen this year. Thank you OP.

Avatar1909 · 3 months

The power to post a repost when everyone says original content.

pimpofpixels · 3 months

These wars are wrong and Bush AND Obama are terrible people for being complicit in their existence.

SnowK · 3 months

The power to say no when everyone says yes

My feelings when turning down endless shitty job offer after endless shitty job offer.

Sleep45 · 3 months

Reminds me of the video the other day of the 1 min war memorial alarm, but you would still see a person or 2 walking.

f3nd3r · 3 months

"Damn sun is my eyes... oh what's going on..."

SwimGuys · 3 months

Another guy on the bottom right of the circle is not saluting.

ishoyu · 3 months

It is me or is the guy in the top right corner (white shirt) not saluting either? I guess his arm could be blocked by the guy in front's head, but it doesn't look like there's room for that.

gloomdoom · 3 months

That dude directly southeast of the guy refusing is starting directly into the camera and it's creeping me out.

Ryio5 · 3 months

Got some big balls to defy the nazi party...

Jakaerdor-lives · 3 months

Now i'm going to see this on facebook with the super imposed text, "don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe".

illiteratemarsupial · 3 months

this was used as a very obvious way to pick out dissenters

ancientshoes · 3 months

He doesn't support gay marriage! get him!

bros221 · 3 months

This picture is just too powerful.

Okkuc · 3 months

Blind mute and deaf - "The inability to say yes when everyone says yes"

xGiBbYv · 3 months

The meaning of Badass

SFWerk · 3 months

He is white so maybe he just has really really bad rhythm.

TheDelaney1182 · 3 months

There's another guy not saluting. Back right in the dungarees.

Crossthebreeze · 3 months

Tzoo Meinschtream.

derpandamensch · 3 months

http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3qbcw1/

FuctUp · 3 months

And that was the last time Herr Paul was seen.

vagrantwade · 3 months

This has been on the front page a lot lately.

loganfire3 · 3 months

There is a documentary on this man called swing kids. Christian bale plays him.

owndyou · 3 months

He's just too ecstatic having his hair stroked by the kid behind him.

dingobiscuits · 3 months

phew! just as well he was there to stop the Nazis in their tracks. if it hadn't been for him, those guys could have got up to all kinds of hi-jinks.

Who-cares · 3 months

the power of fatigue

AlextheGerman · 3 months

Goddamn it reddit. You people always exegerate everything. Can't we talk reasonably about the posted content? Does it always have to be extremes? Stop calling everyone a "boss" for doing nothing, nor call everyone else "literally Hitler", words lose their meaning that way. Just stick to the facts.

This piscture is nice, it clearly delivers a message that is important.

Satros · 3 months

The Bill O'Reilly of Nazis.

opposing_critter · 3 months

then he went to jail. So brave

corncorncorncorn · 3 months

Or he was just trying to cover up a boner.

Uberninjaa · 3 months

The power to stand and do nothing when everyone says yes

Fixed that for you.

ye0j · 3 months

Probably just scratching himself

ctrl_all_del · 3 months

the people talking behind him are like "this guy is soooo dead"

Cerylidae · 3 months

Courage, perhaps. Conviction, certainly. Power? Not so much. His refusal to salute didn't destroy Nazi Germany. Eleven time zones of Joseph Stalin and the iron ass-kicking boot of Patton did that.

Yes, yes, and Montgomery, and the rest of the UK, and the broader commonwealth, and the other American commanders, and the partisans and resistance fighters, and the Red Army, and all the people who worked and toiled to provide for the armies. But that's not as fun to say.

[deleted] · 3 months

*The power to say NEIN.

Anticlimax1471 · 3 months

There are at least four other guys not saluting.

Why_did_you_downvote · 3 months

Cramps.

Iforgotmyother_name · 3 months

He's probably thinking, "Ah fuck this, I didn't get a giftbag."

seink · 3 months

OR he could be a handicapped hardcore nazi who couldn't raise his disabled hand.

Anterai · 3 months

So why didnt the authior of this post say no to reposting. when everyone else says yes

WholeWideWorld · 3 months

...or just daydreaming.

lostonyou · 3 months

I bet he got killed

mrbarber · 3 months

"Nazi's. I hate these guys"

Theguywithabanana · 3 months

Anybody else see the creepy stare from the guy at the bottom right of the circle?

slapsticks89 · 3 months

There seems to me that there are some very...resigned, if you will, faces in the crowd. Nice to see some stand against the tide of social revolution though.

devilz_devilz · 3 months

The power to post it again when its been posted a thousand times before

Nefarious_Lobster · 3 months

Me on Reddit. I don't care what people think of me and my opinions.

kinggod · 3 months

He is so enthralled by Hitler's speech, that he is doing all he can do cover his giant pulsating boner.

slinkering · 3 months

seems this happens alot

Hasjy · 3 months

What a hero.

natepilling · 3 months

I think that guy is asleep.

fracking_u · 3 months

Brave.

SteakNCake · 3 months

He looks like a chubby william shatner.

ghostcoins · 3 months

They have this photo in the Topography of Terror (Museum at the old Nazi headquarters( in Berlin. I recall it saying that they were pretty sure it was a certain fellow, but weren't able to confirm. I think he was reprimanded for this, but nothing serious. This was definitely taken during the early years of Nazi power, before they started killing people.

bluesnappa · 3 months

maybe he was up all night getting drunk? i was gonna say he could of been mentally challenge but thats impossible because the nazi's killed them all.

panzerschrekk · 3 months

"franz, du gehts jetzt sofort unter die dusche."

MagCynic · 3 months

He was there, wasn't he? He could have just been adjusting his junk at that exact moment and put up his arm after the camera clicked.

MrDrummond · 3 months

Hans Hubermann?

exactlycake · 3 months

As a non-American, I find this to be all too close to what you see in American schools each morning. Saluting the flag, being brainwahed into a hyper nationalist nation. Not questioning your leadership. IN fact the US used the roman salute before the Nazis.

mtfw · 3 months

Raise your hand if you HAVEN'T eaten a baby today.

Lhabs · 3 months

I wouldn't be surprised if everyone is thinking this man was a great guy for not saluting but I bet this is what he was thinking "damn! my arms are really sore from killing all them jews with that rusty crowbar. Ill just rest them this one time so I can be ready for the next slaughtering!"

Ill show myself out

Fapocalypse_Now · 3 months

This is how I feel when I'm on Facebook and my conservative family is discussing Chick-Fil-A.

lbmouse · 3 months

That pretty much sums up how I feel when somebody starts a prayer before a holiday meal or at a group event.

panzerdriver · 3 months

He probably got shot in the head.

Krazen · 3 months

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bainskian · 3 months

We got a turd in the punch bowl.

Craption · 3 months

He's probably a Jehovah's witness. Still gonna upvote?

vjjinmymouth · 3 months

That's the way I feel when my family prays before big meals.

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