William Meinecke Jr. of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. (Photo: John Disney/ALM)
March 1933. Munich: A lawyer goes to the police station to inquire about a client who has been arrested. Nazi storm troopers beat the lawyer, knock out some of his teeth, cut his pants off at the knee and order him to walk, barefoot, through the streets bearing a sign around his neck that says, ”I will never again complain to the police.”
William Meinecke, a historian from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., showed a photograph depicting that moment during a presentation to the 28th Annual Georgia Bar, Media & Judiciary Conference last week in Atlanta. He said the story of Michael Siegel, the lawyer in the photo, illustrated that “lawyers are in a particularly vulnerable position in this period.”
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