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	Karl Plagge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plagge, a veteran of WWI, was initially attracted to the promises of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party to rebuild the German economy and national pride during the difficult years experienced by Germany following the signing of the Versailles Treaty.
		Plagge had graduated from the Technical University of Darmstadt in 1924 with a degree in engineering, and thus upon being drafted into the Wehrmacht at the beginning of WWII, was put in command of an engineering unit, HKP 562, whose duties involved repairing damaged military vehicles on the eastern front.
		Plagge, given his support of the Nazi party in the early 1930s, felt responsible for some of the horrors he witnessed and decided that it was his duty to try to work against the genocidal machine he had unwittingly helped create.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Karl_Plagge (1143 words)

	60 Years Later, Honoring the German Army Maj. Karl Plagge
		Major Karl Plagge served as an officer of the Wermacht in Vilna (Vilnius) from June 1941 to June 1944.
		Plagge treated his workers well, and included many people who were not qualified as mechanics to work there in order to save them from deportation; among the Jews of Vilna it was known that if one wanted a chance to survive, the only option was to work in Plagge's plant.
		Karl Plagge died in 1957 and was posthumously recognized by the Yad Vashem Committee on July 22, 2004.
	isurvived.org /Rightheous_Folder/Plagge_Karl_MajGerman.html (1462 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Middle East / Israeli Holocaust museum honors Nazi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Plagge was named "Righteous among the nations" in a posthumous ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem.
		Plagge served as a Nazi officer in Lithuania from 1941-1944, where he was in charge of a factory that employed hundreds of Jews.
		Plagge was honored Monday by Israel's Holocaust museum for saving hundreds of Jews from death camps during World War II.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/04/11/israeli_holocaust_museum_honors_nazi (471 words)

	Holocaust Education Committee @ UPenn
		The story of Maj Karl Plagge was unearthed by a US doctor, Michael Good, who began searching in 1999 for the Nazi who had saved his mother.
		Plagge, who died in 1957, was honored by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
		Plagge told the high command that keeping families together would boost the workers' motivation - thereby defying the SS troops, who were killing Jews en masse.
	dolphin.upenn.edu /~vaad/hec/article21.html (484 words)

	The Middletown Press - News - 05/27/2005 - Good relates his quest for Major Plagge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Good had learned Plagge was accused of being a war criminal and had gone through a denouncification trial, and he was able to obtain the trial transcript.
		Plagge had served in World War I, was caught by the British Army and was a prisoner of war for two years.
		Plagge gave 250 Jewish men in Vilna "skilled worker" permits which saved the lives of the men, their wives and two children, Good said.
	www.middletownpress.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14599381&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=10856&rfi=6 (973 words)

	Fordham University Press
		It begins with a journey of self discover, a trip back with his aging parents to Vilna where he learns anew the story of his parents survival due to the kindness of others and confronts the question who was the man who saved Jews in Vilna.
		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.
		Karl Plagge never considered himself a hero, describing himself as a fellow traveler for not doing more to fight the regime.
	www.fordhampress.com /detail.html?session=d6b7a202a91314cebee27c09d7b2269d&cat=&id=0823224406 (763 words)

	Germany Info: Culture & Life
		Karl Plagge's story is one of unique courage — that of a German Wehrmacht officer who subverted the system of death to save the lives of Jews in the Vilna Ghetto, where he commanded a slave labor camp from 1941 to 1944.
		On April 11, 2005, Karl Plagge (1897-1957) will be named one of the "Righteous among the Nations" at Yad Vashem in Israel.
		And on April 15, 2005, Major Plagge will be honored in a public ceremony in his hometown of Darmstadt, where German Defense Minister Peter Struck is scheduled to join author Good at the ceremony.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/culture/new/cul_YW_Plagge_3_2005.html (262 words)

	.:: Welcome To The Jewish Ledger ::.
		She replied that no one knew, that Plagge had left Vilna with the retreating Germans in July of 1944 and disappeared into the chaos of war.
		Plagge was after all a Nazi party member and the commander of a slave labor camp in which more than 700 Jews died.
		Plagge himself hid his tracks carefully during the war and like most Germans, did not discuss the war in the years that followed.
	www.jewishledger.com /articles/2005/04/27/news/news04.txt (1007 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Israel recognises 'new Schindler'
		Plagge, who died in 1957, was honoured by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial.
		Plagge hired about 1,200 Jewish workers from the ghetto - 500 men, and the rest women and children, Mr Shalev said.
		Plagge joins 20,757 men and women recognised by Yad Vashem for rescuing Jews from annihilation by the SS.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4432075.stm (561 words)

	Guardian \| Honour for German major who saved 250 Jews
		Plagge, an engineer, joined the Nazi party in 1931 in the belief that it would restore Germany's fortunes, but he became disillusioned with its racial ideology.
		Plagge once took an ailing Jewish prisoner to a hospital reserved for non-Jews, where she stayed until the end of the war.
		Plagge's godson Konrad Hesse will be at today's ceremony, along with the Good family and survivors of Subocz Street.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5167649-103552,00.html (863 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: Israel honours the Nazi who saved Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Major Karl Plagge was named “Righteous among the nations” in an emotional posthumous ceremony at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem.
		Plagge served as an Nazi officer in Lithuania from 1941-1944, where he was in charge of a factory that employed hundreds of Jews.
		Worner accepted the honour on behalf of Plagge, who was a graduate of the university.
	www.breakingnews.ie /story.asp?j=139535958&p=y39536664&n=139536718&x=&fs=2 (425 words)

	The Middletown Press - News - 05/05/2001 - Durham man finds Nazi officer credited for his family?s rescue
		But it was the absence of hard information about Plagge -- the commander of a slave labor camp in Vilnius who used coveted work permits to shield Jews from German death squads -- that haunted Good and started him on a two-year quest over the Internet and hundreds of e-mail messages.
		Pearl Good remembers Plagge’s carefully worded speech to 250 prisoners in July 1944, warning that his work was done as stormtroopers approached to round up the Jews.
		Plagge himself urged the denazification judges to classify him as a "fellow traveler," rather than innocent, in recognition of his involvement in the Nazi Party.
	www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=1773696&BRD=1645&PAG=461&dept_id=10856&rfi=8 (1048 words)

	Yad Vashem to Honor German WWII Officer \| Germany \| Deutsche Welle \| 11.04.2005
		Bildunterschrift: Großansicht des Bildes mit der Bildunterschrift: Major Karl PlaggeWhat Good found was this: Just a week before the ghetto was purged by the Germans in September, 1943, Plagge commandeered some 1,000 Jews to work in an military-vehicle maintenance camp outside the ghetto, keeping them safe from death squads.
		A number of the workers' last memories of Plagge was shortly before the Red Army was to enter Vilnius, in July 1944.
		Plagge died in 1957 in his hometown of Darmstadt, at age 59.
	www.dw-world.de /dw/article/0,1564,1548689,00.html (998 words)

	Legless in perpetuum » Blog Archive » There were Nazis…
		Major Karl Plagge to be posthumously honoured in presence of German Ambassador
		Major Karl Plagge served as an officer of the Wehrmacht in
		Plagge treated his workers well, and included many people who were not qualified as mechanics to work there in order to save them from deportation; among the Jews of Vilnius it was known that if one wanted a chance to survive, the only option was to work in Plagge’s plant.
	www.observationdeck.org /lip/?p=87 (383 words)

	Karl Plagge the ‘New Schindler’ » Outside The Beltway \| OTB
		Karl Plagge the ‘New Schindler’ » Outside The Beltway
		Israel has honored Karl Plagge, a German Army officer who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazi Holocaust in Lithuania.
		Maj Plagge sheltered about 1,200 Jews at a vehicle workshop, safe from the SS annihilation of the Vilnius ghetto.
	www.outsidethebeltway.com /archives/2005/04/karl_plagge_the_new_schindler (380 words)

	Karl Plagge - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Karl Plagge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Karl Plagge - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Karl Plagge.
		Maj Karl Plagge (born July 10 1897 in Darmstadt, died 1957 in Darmstadt) was a German officer and Nazi Party member, who during World War II hired approximately 1,200 Jews — 500 men, and the rest women and children — to forced labor, thus preventing them from being murdered in Nazi extermination camps.
		The orginal Karl Plagge article can be editet
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Karl-Plagge.html (146 words)

	The new Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem - FACTS & FIGURES
		Major Karl Plagge to be posthumously honored in presence of German Ambassador
		Survivors who were helped by Maj. Plagge and their families - among them Dr. Simon Malkes, Dr. Michael Good, and Mr.
		Karl Plagge died in 1957 and was posthumously recognized by the Committee on July 22, 2004.
	www1.yadvashem.org /about_yad/press_room/press_releases/10.04.05b.html (393 words)

	Town Times: Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And, it was while standing in the courtyard of the HKP (vehicle military repair park) that his mother first told him how grateful she was to a German army officer, Major Plagge, whose name became the title for Good's book.
		And it was here also that Good's book began to take shape—as a dual account of one family's history during the Holocaust and of the effort to find and explain the actions of the individuals who made their survival possible.
		There was death, dying and unspeakable suffering yet it was the brave, good actions of ordinary people who saved a few Jews from death and provided the opportunity for Michael Good's parents and a lucky few to emerge from the horror alive.
	www.towntimes.com /articles/2005/03/11/news/columns/column01.txt (1252 words)

	book: The Search For Major Plagge: The Nazi Who Saved Jews \| Michael Good
		While all "Righteous Gentiles" share the stamp of conscience, 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.
		Karl Plagge first joined, then left, the Nazi Party.
		In Vilna, whose teeming ghetto held tens of thousands of Jews facing extermination, he found himself in charge of a work camp where military vehicles were repaired.
	www.this-is-great.com /info/flsassiifj (523 words)

	israelinsider: anti-Semitism: 'Nazi who saved Jews' honored in Israel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Michael Good, an American physician from Connecticut whose mother was among those rescued by Plagge, holds his picture of the Nazi officer.
		Karl Plagge was named "Righteous Among the Nations" in an emotional posthumous ceremony in Jerusalem.
		The ceremony capped a six-year odyssey by Michael Good, an American physician from Connecticut whose mother was among those rescued by Plagge.
	web.israelinsider.com /Articles/AntiSemi/5319.htm (522 words)

	j. - The Nazi who saved Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Born in 1897, Plagge fought with his countrymen in World War I. After the war ended, he became an engineer and joined the Nazi Party — an act for which he never forgave himself.
		Yet Plagge never forgave himself for the years he had been in the Nazi Party.
		In a letter to his attorney, Plagge sought to reconcile his feelings about the Holocaust, using a metaphor borrowed from Camus in “The Plague.” He wrote, “I wasn’t able to recognize the boundaries where limit of guilt began or ended, and in the broader sense, as a German, I bear this guilt.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/27246/format/html/displaystory.html (500 words)

	Germany Info: Culture & Life
		Yad Vashem – The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority – posthumously honored German Major Karl Plagge as a Righteous Among the Nations in a ceremony in Jerusalem on April 11.
		Major Plagge (1897-1957) has no surviving relatives, but taking part in the ceremony to honor him were some survivors he helped and their families.
		Among the Jews of Vilna, it was known that if one wanted a chance to survive, the only option was to work in Plagge’s plant, according to information published by Yad Vashem.
	www.germany-info.org /relaunch/culture/new/cul_YW_Plagge_4_2005.html (391 words)

	New Haven Advocate: The Good, the Bad and the Nazis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Six years ago, Michael Good, the child of Holocaust survivors, launched a search for SS officer Karl Plagge, who saved his mother and many other Jews by diverting them to his labor camp.
		Since then, Good has spread Plagges story and convinced the state of Israel to honor him as a hero.
		Though The Search for Major Plagge ducks the moral complexity of the Holocaust and figures like Plagge, the story of Goods search and his parents survival are compelling accounts of how luck and determination can shape the present and the past.
	www.newhavenadvocate.com /gbase/Lifestyle/content?oid=oid:105676 (112 words)

	salguod.net: Righteous Among the Nations
		Maj. Karl Plagge ran a vehicle-repair facility for the army, using Jewish workers.
		The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial group accorded Plagge its coveted "Righteous Among the Nations" title.
		Plagge joins 20,757 others who have been recognized for saving Jews from the Nazis.
	www.salguod.net /weblog/archive/000292.shtml (506 words)

	Town Times: Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		For five years, he wrote hundreds of letters and scoured the internet to recover, in one hard-earned bit of evidence after another, information about the man whose moral choices saved hundreds of lives.
		This unforgettable book is the first portrait of Major Plagge, a modest man who simply refused to play by the rules.
		Although the Holocaust represents the worst of humanity, the example of Karl Plagge shows the power of a single person taking the path of goodness and having positive effects for generations to come.
	www.towntimes.com /articles/2005/03/17/news/local_news/news06.txt (281 words)

	Lone Star Times » Israel honors Nazi officer who saved Jews
		It’s heartening to know that some compassion can remain, even in the face of a determined campaign of inhumanity.
		It is indeed heartening to hear that Maj. Plagge helped so many people probably at great risk to himself.
		He was courageous to stand against evil during the Nazi regime that considered evil good.
	lonestartimes.com /2005/04/11/israel-honors-nazi-officer-who-saved-jews (251 words)

	NEWS - INTERNATIONAL - MIDDLE EAST - Comcast.net
		Pearl Good, a Holocaust survivor, touches a memorial wall with the name of Maj. Karl Plagge,...
		JERUSALEM - A German military officer who became known as the "Nazi who saved Jews" was honored Monday by Israel's Holocaust memorial for rescuing hundreds of Jews from death camps during World War II.
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	www.comcast.net /news/international/middleeast/index.jsp?cat=MIDDLEEAST&fn=/2005/04/11/104217.html (407 words)

	Different River » The Nazi who Saved Jews
		A member of the Nazi Party who worked to bring the party to power in the years preceding World War II, Karl Plagge was drafted into the German army, where he witnessed the genocide of the Jews.
		But then his life took a sudden turn, which set him forever apart from his co-officers, who were either complicit in or, at best, turned a blind eye to the mass extermination of European Jewry.
		Stationed in Vilna from June 1941 to June 1944, Major Plagge, an engineer by training, was put in charge of a repair facility for military vehicles, a forced labor camp that was known among the Lithuanian Jewish community as a relative safe haven from the Nazi extermination.
	differentriver.com /archives/2005/04/11/the-nazi-who-saved-jews (350 words)

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