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August Landmesser was born in Moorrege in 1910, the only child of August Franz Landmesser and Wilhelmine Magdalene (ne Schmidtpott). In 1931, hoping it would help him get employment, he joined the Nazi Party. In 1935, when he became engaged to Irma Eckler (a Jewish woman), he was expelled from the party.

They registered to be married in Hamburg, but the Nuremberg Laws enacted a month later prevented it. On 29 October 1935, Landmesser and Eckler's first daughter, Ingrid, was born.

In 1937, Landmesser attempted to flee Nazi Germany to Denmark with his family but he was detained at the border and charged with "dishonoring the race," or "racial infamy," under the Nuremberg Laws. He was acquitted on 27 May 1938 for lack of evidence, with the warning that a repeat offense would result in a multi-year prison sentence.

The couple publicly continued their relationship, and on 15 July 1938, Landmesser was arrested again and sentenced to two and a half years in the Brgermoor concentration camp. Eckler was detained by the Gestapo and held at the prison Fuhlsbttel, where she gave birth to their second daughter, Irene. From there, Eckler was sent to the Oranienburg concentration camp, then to the Lichtenburg concentration camp for women, and finally to the women's concentration camp at Ravensbrck. A

few letters from Irma Eckler were received until January 1942. It is believed that she was taken to the Bernburg Euthanasia Centre in February 1942, where she was among the 14,000 murdered. In the course of post-war documentation, in 1949, she was pronounced legally dead, with a date of 28 April 1942.

Meanwhile, Landmesser was discharged from prison on 19 January 1941 He worked as a foreman for the haulage company Pst. The company had a branch at the Heinkel-Werke (factory) in Warnemnde.

In February 1944 he was drafted into a penal battalion, the 999th Fort Infantry Battalion. After fighting in Croatia on 17 October 1944, he was declared killed in action. Like Eckler, he was declared legally dead in 1949.

Initially, their children were taken to the city orphanage. Later, Ingrid was allowed to live with her maternal grandmother. In 1941, Irene went to the home of foster parents. After her grandmother's death in 1953, Ingrid also was placed with foster parents.

The marriage of August Landmesser and Irma Eckler was recognized retroactively by the Senate of Hamburg in the summer of 1951. In the autumn of that year Ingrid assumed the surname Landmesser. Irene continued to use the surname Eckler.
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With his life on the line the dude still flat out rejected Nazi bullshit

Sounds kinda fucking stupid. I mean, very brave in the face of such a bullshit time, but it meant he and his wife ended up with a horrible life, and his kids ended as orphans. Then again, maybe trying to hide his family would be wasted effort.

Dude was a literal nazi at one point.

Not something to aspire to be.

This story makes me feel a couple different ways. The only way I can agree with you is if I think he wouldnt have been able to find a way out of the country if he kept trying and kept a low profile. I have to tell myself the wife was doomed anyway and there was nothing he could do to protect his children.

With the Nazis, it was likely true, considering he already got caught once.

*lol, thought about it too much and ninjad by guide

Etna posted...

Dude was a literal nazi at one point.

Not something to aspire to be.

So was Oskar Schindler

Aspire to the person, not the political party whose beliefs they opposed