Confederate Heritage Month: What My Confederate Forebears Taught Me

Written By D. Jonathan White

In September 1936, August Landmesser was in a crowd at a Hamburg, Germany shipyard as Adolf Hitler visited. Everyone in the crowd rendered the Nazi salute, except Landmesser. Landmesser had been a party member, but then he married a Jewish woman, and the scales fell from his eye, so to speak. He paid dearly for this defiance. Sent to a concentration cam…