How Can Each Singular Person Shape Foreign Policy and Its Understanding?

Resistance, Retrenchment and Ignorance

August Landmesser (1910-1944), Hamburg, June 13, 1936

In the common and cursory narratives, as much of spirit as of soul, of geopolitics, there is generally little mention of Menschen and rarely also of traitors. In the best of them, one will speak of the peoples or of the “collectives” that have fanned the fire of revolutions. In others, one will evoke …