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Confederate Heritage Month: What My Confederate Forebears Taught Me
Confederate Heritage Month: What My Confederate Forebears Taught Me
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 camp (twice), he was eventually conscripted into the Wehrmacht and was killed in action in 1944. His wife was sent to a concentration camp, where she was killed.
Landmesser’s story illustrates that dissent is possible, even in the face of peer pressure. Today, we honor his defiance in the face of evil. He shows that not everybody succumbed to Nazi pressure to conform, dissent was possible, even if painful for the dissenter.
In a similar fashion, Virginia showed that political dissent in the face of evil was possible, even if, like Landmesser, it would be painful for the Commonwealth. On April 4, 1861, the Convention of the people of Virginia voted down secession by a two to one majority. Virginia was trying to craft a compromise that would bring the…
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