Sticking to: One Salute at a Time
Among other things, the Nuremberg Race Laws of 1935 outlawed the union of Aryans and Jews by marriage. Identified as August Landmesser, the man in the photo fell head over heels in love with a Jewish woman after joining the Nazi Party searching for a job. Under the Nuremberg Laws, they were denied the right to marry.
But they remained together and had two children until they were forced apart by Nazi race laws. A few years after the death of their son, Landmesser was forced to pay for his crimes by joining the war effort in Croatia, where he was executed in 1944. Landmesser or not, it is a rare moment in history captured from afar: the man who stood up to the Nazis.