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Football isn’t the only thing on the agenda for Bayern Munich in their stateside Audi Summer Tour — and it’s certainly not the most meaningful one. While in Washington, D.C., Bayern used the opportunity to be a part of two unifying social events of great import: an exhibition entitled ‘Venerated - Persecuted - Forgotten: Victims of National Socialism at FC Bayern Munich’at the U.S. Capitol, and a special event at the National Museum of African American History and Culture that was a part of the club’s ‘Red Against Racism’ initiative — as reported at FCBayern.com.

‘Never again’

Kurt Landauer (1884-1961) is still the longest-tenured president in FC Bayern history — elected for the first time 1913, serving in World War I, and then returning until 1933. That year, the gradual Nazi ascension reached a breakthrough, Hitler was appointed chancellor, and Landauer — who was Jewish — was forced to resign. Five years later, he was arrested and sent to the concentration camp in Dachau, where only his prior military service spared him.

He was, of course, far from alone in persecution, and far more were far less fortunate. The atrocities of the Nazis left deep, generational scars, and they reverberate through history. Those who were able to or permitted to escape — as Landauer was

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