Hugh Thompson Jr. ended the Mỹ Lai massacre by instructing their helicopter crew to fire on their own military’s soldiers if they continued to kill innocent civilians, then informed command of what was going on and got them to order the company committing the massacre to stop.
All sorts of people helped Jews escape the Holocaust at their own risk. Oskar Schindler, for example, was originally a member of the Nazi party, then saw what was going on and spent their entire fortune on bribes to keep their Jewish employees from being sent to concentration camps. They pivoted their business from manufacturing cookware to manufacturing anti-tank grenades (and tried to manufacture as few as possible) in order to get those employees classified as “vital to the war effort”. They went bankrupt and had to live much of the rest of their life off of financial aid from the Jews they had saved.
There have been a number of other nuclear close calls that may well have been prevented by a single person, but I don’t know the details.
Maybe Georges Picquart for their rule in the Dreyfus affair. Kolmogorov sheltering Jews. Jimmy Carter trying to end racial discrimination against the desires of their constituents.
Hugh Thompson Jr. ended the Mỹ Lai massacre by instructing their helicopter crew to fire on their own military’s soldiers if they continued to kill innocent civilians, then informed command of what was going on and got them to order the company committing the massacre to stop.
All sorts of people helped Jews escape the Holocaust at their own risk. Oskar Schindler, for example, was originally a member of the Nazi party, then saw what was going on and spent their entire fortune on bribes to keep their Jewish employees from being sent to concentration camps. They pivoted their business from manufacturing cookware to manufacturing anti-tank grenades (and tried to manufacture as few as possible) in order to get those employees classified as “vital to the war effort”. They went bankrupt and had to live much of the rest of their life off of financial aid from the Jews they had saved.
There have been a number of other nuclear close calls that may well have been prevented by a single person, but I don’t know the details.
Maybe Georges Picquart for their rule in the Dreyfus affair. Kolmogorov sheltering Jews. Jimmy Carter trying to end racial discrimination against the desires of their constituents.