Ordinary people. The courage to say no. The photo was taken in Hamburg in 1936, during the celebrations for the launch of a ship. In the crowed, one person refuses to raise his arm to give the Nazi salute. The man was August Landmesser. He had already been in trouble with the authorities, having been sentenced to two years hard labour for marrying a Jewish woman. We know little else about August Landmesser, except that he had two children. By pure chance, one of his children recognized her father in this photo when it was published in a German newspaper in 1991. How proud she must have been in that moment.
IntroductionWe are going to start the class with 5 easy questions:
Chapter One Exploring Different Ways of ThinkingOn Which beliefs and values should my ideology be based?
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Are we really that violent? The Milgram Experiments
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Chapter Two and Three: Individualism and Collectivism
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