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THE SEARCH FOR MAJOR PLAGGE: The Nazi Who Saved Jews ~SIGNED COPY~
Bibliographic Details
Title:THE SEARCH FOR MAJOR PLAGGE: The Nazi Who ...
Publisher:NY. 2005. Fordham Univ. Press
Publication Date:2006
Binding:Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition:Dust Jacket Included
Signed:Signed by Author(s)
About this title
On April 11, 2005, in Jerusalem, Karl Plagge will be named a “Righteous Among
the Nations” hero by the State of Israel. He joins Oskar Schindler and some
380 other similarly honored Germans who protected and saved Jews during
the Holocaust.
Karl Plagge’s story is of a unique kind of courage―that of a German army officer
who subverted the system of death to save the lives of some 250 Jews in Vilna,
Lithuania. One of those he saved was Michael Good’s mother.
Haunted by his mother’s stories of the mysterious officer who commanded her
slave labor camp, Michael Good resolved to find out all he could abo
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Karl Plagge
Karl Plagge (Yad Vashem)
Karl Plagge was born on July 10, 1897, in Darmstadt. A partially disabled veteran of the First World War, Plagge studied engineering and joined the Nazi Party in 1931. He wanted to be part of helping Germany to re-build from the economic collapse following the war. After being dismissed from the position of lecturer, for being unwilling to teach racisim, and his opposition to the Nazi policy against the Jews, he stopped participating in Nazi Party activities in 1935, and four years later when the Second World War broke out, he left the Nazi Party.
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. At first, Plagge employed Jews who lived inside the ghetto, but when it was due to be liquidated in September 1943, he set up the HKP 562, forced labour camp, where he saved many male Jews, by issuing them official work permits, on the false premise, that their
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The Search for Major Plagge
The Nazi Who Saved Jews, Expanded Edition
Pub Date: månad 31, 2006
ISBN: 9780823224418
Page Count: 288
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When The Search for Major Plagge was published gods spring, the world finally learned about a unique hero—and about one American doctor’s extraordinary journey to tell Karl Plagge’s story.
Part detective story, part anställda quest, Michael Good’s book is the story of the German commander of a Lithuanian work camp who saved hundreds of Jewish lives in the Vilna ghetto —including the life of Good’s mother, Pearl. Who was this enigmatic officer Pearl Good had spoken of so often?
After fem years of research—interviewing survivors, assembling a team that could work to open German files untouched for fifty years, following every lead he could, Good was able to uncover the fantastisk tale of one man’s remarkable courage. And in April 2005 Karl Plagge joined Oskar Schindler and 380 other Germans as a “Righteous am