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This image is inspired by a 1936 photo of a Nazi rally at a Hamburg shipyard, which has been making the rounds on social media. Most of the people in the photo did the infamous salute... bar one brave soul who firmly crossed his arms, believed to be August Landmesser. Landmesser's story had a bittersweet ending; he was secretly opposed to the Third Reich regime, married a Jewish lady, and eventually got conscripted and sent to die in the trenches of Yugoslavia, while his wife perished at a concentration camp. Their daughters, mercifully, lived to tell the tale.

With the resurgence of neo-Fascism in recent years, knowing what's real and what's fake is increasingly important. And when the lemmings eventually jump over the cliff, it's better to be alone than in bad company. If you're wondering what the symbol is, it's the symbol of GLADIO, which comes from my own fertile imagination. I didn't want to use existing symbols, not just because they're illegal in some parts of the world, but because I didn't want to give people a reason to glamourise them. GLADIO is named after an infamous black-op in Europe during the later Cold War, with visual elements drawing from the Ku Klux Klan, medieval Crusader imagery, the Brownshirts, and the company formerly known as Blackwater, among other unsavoury mobs. They'll be recurring antagonists in some of my future works.

Description
This image is inspired by a 1936 photo of a Nazi rally at a Hamburg shipyard, which has been making the rounds on social media. Most of the people in the photo did the infamous salute... bar one brave soul who firmly crossed his arms, believed to be August Landmesser. Landmesser's story had a bittersweet ending; he was secretly opposed to the Third Reich regime, married a Jewish lady, and eventually got conscripted and sent to die in the trenches of Yugoslavia, while his wife perished at a concentration camp. Their daughters, mercifully, lived to tell the tale.

With the resurgence of neo-Fascism in recent years, knowing what's real and what's fake is increasingly important. And when the lemmings eventually jump over the cliff, it's better to be alone than in bad company. If you're wondering what the symbol is, it's the symbol of GLADIO, which comes from my own fertile imagination. I didn't want to use existing symbols, not just because they're illegal in some parts of the world, but because I didn't want to give people a reason to glamourise them. GLADIO is named after an infamous black-op in Europe during the later Cold War, with visual elements drawing from the Ku Klux Klan, medieval Crusader imagery, the Brownshirts, and the company formerly known as Blackwater, among other unsavoury mobs. They'll be recurring antagonists in some of my future works.