I thought I would follow-up on the story of Armin Wegner, the German writer/photographer and anti-genocide activist who dedicated his life to protesting both the Armenian genocide and the Holocaust. After documenting the horrific realities of the genocide in Armenia, Wegner was arrested by the Germans at the request of the Turkish Command. In their efforts to erase all evidence of the killings, German officials confiscated and destroyed most of Wegner's film, though he was able to smuggle a few images.
He then went on to be the only writer in Nazi Germany to publicly and forcefully protest Hitler's plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Shortly after writing a letter to Hitler, Wegner was arrested, tortured, and sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Before finally escaping to Italy, Wegner was imprisoned in seven different concentration camps.
Wegner's story an incredibly inspiring example of the extent to which select people are willing to go in the name of social justice and consciousness.
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