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

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On July 1st, 1944 Major Plagge entered the camp and as the prisoners gathered around him, he made an informal speech. A partially disabled veteran of World War I, Plagge studied engineering and joined the Nazi Party in 1931 in hopes of helping Germany rebuild from the economic collapse following the war.

Nevertheless, I highly recommend this book if you have any interest in this era or in the way people treat each other.In 1943, after negotiations with the SS, Plagge was able to expand his workforce from 394 Jews in July to more than 1,000 when the ghetto was liquidated in September. The account of finding out who his parents' rescuer was and how they obtained recognition for his work is told by a non-historian.

Plagge attempted to contact Neugebauer, but was unable to, and the Jews were all deported to Klooga.

During this crucial period Plagge made huge bureaucratic efforts to form a free standing HKP562 labor camp on the outskirts of Vilnius. Another 100 Jews were smuggled in by the resistance movement with Plagge's acquiescence, and the population peaked at 1,250 early in 1944.

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