The Search for Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition

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During the Second World War, he used his position as a staff officer in the German Army to employ and protect Jews in the Vilna Ghetto.

According to historian Kim Priemel, the success of Plagge's rescue efforts was due to working within the system to save Jews, a position that required him to enter a "grey zone" of moral compromise. After the trial, Plagge lived the final decade of his life quietly and died of a heart attack in Darmstadt on 19 June 1957. Moreover, it takes perhaps a bit of goodwill, occasionally a good idea, and dedication to the task at hand.Michael Good has appeared on C-SPAN, as a speaker in Israel and Germany, and in schools, libraries, churches, and synagogues across the United States. In response to a question from the assembled Jews, Plagge added that there was no need to bring their luggage.

D.' (Sicherheits Dienst) organization, whose task it is - with the enthusiastic help of certain Lithuanians, to exterminate the local Polish and Jewish population. It seems there could have been a unifying story line more along the lines of a screen play which integrates the stories the author discovers after the story of his mother concludes.

He fought as a lieutenant in World War I on the Western Front, participating in the battles of the Somme, Verdun, and Flanders. He was made a prisoner of war by Britain where he caught Polio, which partially crippled him, so that he needed special shoes. It was during this trip that he heard the story of the enigmatic officer named Major Plagge who his mother claimed had saved her life. Of a pre-war Jewish population in Vilnius, only 2,000 survived, of which the largest single group, were saved by Plagge. The historian Kim Priemel, examining Wehrmacht rescuers in Vilnius, concludes that Plagge "remained within a 'grey zone' of moral compromise, which, however, was vital to the success of [his] rescue efforts".

This kind of work permit protected the worker, his wife and two of their children from the SS sweeps. The front line is moving west and HKP's assignment is to always be a certain number of miles behind the front line. In the novel, which was written while Camus was living under Nazi occupation in France, Rieux risks his life to save people from the plague, but his efforts cannot save very many people and often appear useless. In 2005, following two unsuccessful petitions, the Holocaust Institution of Yad Vashem, recognized Karl Plagge, as a 'Righteous Among the Nations. In 1939 major Karl Plagge was drafted in to the Wermacht at the beginning of World War II when Germany invaded Poland.After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, HKP 562 was deployed to Vilna, Lithuania, in early July 1941. Mordecai Paldiel, the director of the committee, thanked Pearl Good for making the trip to Vilnius with her family and sparking the chain of events that uncovered Plagge's actions during the war. In particular, the Vilna Ghetto was seen as a threat because of its extensive underground movement and the proximity of partisans in the woods around the city.