Conversation

Retired Major Friedrich Solmitz was a middle class conservative nationalist from Hamburg. When the Nazis seized power he volunteered for and received a position working in Air Raid Protection for his block.

In this position he did everything the regime asked of him including implementing the “Aryan paragraph” which meant excluding all Jews from any positions of responsibility.

In 1934 he wrote a letter to his local #Nazi party leader complaining about the repeated and direct criticism Solmitz regularly received from the leader. Solmitz could not understand why he was so often singled out for such harsh criticism.

…. Solmitz was Jewish.

I think about him a lot.