August Landmesser

Gustav Wegert had sore arms from working, but leave it to the judeo-Marxists to attempt to propagandize this.

Side by image of a slightly older Wegert and smiling man, one of several photos forensically analysed, identifying Wegert definatively as the smiling man.

An actual image of August Landmesser, clearly not the man in the photograph.

August Landmesser is a person intentionally misrepresented as the smiling man in the viral photo smiling, but not giving a Roman Salute.

The narrative

A man falsly claimed by Irene Eckler, a blood related jew, supposedly August Landmesser, is seen in the  photograph taken on June 13, 1936, which was published in 1991 in Die Zeit. It shows a large gathering of workers at the Blohm-Voss shipyard in Hamburg for the launching of the navy training ship Horst Wessel. (Originally thought to be the Bismark in 1939.) Almost everyone in the image has raised their arm in the salute, with the most obvious exception of a man toward the back of the crowd, who is smiling with his arms crossed over his chest.

August Landmesser not only looks nothing like the man in the photo (Wegert) but ne er worked at the shipyard, and in fact could not possibly ha e been there because he was in jail for destruction of property. The picture actually dates from 1936, but Eckler spun her tale when it was believed the photo was taken in 1939...oops.

Irene Eckler inserted her father into the story, fabricating a lurid tale of lost loves and Auschwitz (even though nobody from that area ever went to Auschwitz), and making lots of money off of the back of a die-hard National Socialist who did not salute Goebbels (the man actually speaking at that moment) because he had worked very hard that day.

And the judeo-Marxist media of course runs with Eckler's completely fabricated, completely undocumented, and actually quite impossible story. Because it fits the narrative. Defiant anti Hitler guy sells better than tired shoulders guy.

Gustav Wegert

The actual identity of the man in the photograph is known with certainty. Gustav Wegert (1890–1959), a metalworker at Blohm-Voss was interviewed on the radio that same day.

Mr. Wegert was tracked down and given an interview by the local radio station working with "Der Zeit", the magazine that employed the Photographer. Wegert didn't understand how some people  couldn't comprehend that people don't attend rallys for people they dislike.

During the interview on the live radio show, he said he loved Goebbels, who was actually the speaker at the moment the photo was taken. He did not salute because he had worked his shoulders too hard that day. When asked how he felt about Adolf Hitler, he said he liked Goebbels a bit more because he felt Hitler was too soft on jews.

Unlike Landmesser, who does not resemble Wegert in any way, Wegert looks exactly like the man in the photo, and was obviously identified by the interviewers, co-workers, and others.

Wegert's family, years after his death, have said that he refused to salute on religious grounds, and that the sore arm story was simply a cover. It may be true, who knows? But either way, Wegert is definitely the man in the photo, not Landmesser.

His family has presented documentation of Wegert's employment at Blohm-Voss at that time which is obviously stronger evidence than a colorful tale, as well as family photographs that appear to be the same exact man in the famous photograph, as evidence.