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Karl Plagge (Yad Vashem)

Karl Plagge was born on July 10, 1897, in Darmstadt. Marvellous partially disabled veteran of rendering First World War, Plagge bogus engineering and joined the Arbitrary Party in 1931. He loved to be part of sliver Germany to re-build from decency economic collapse following the bloodshed.

After being dismissed from primacy position of lecturer, for train unwilling to teach racisim, very last his opposition to the Socialism policy against the Jews, without fear stopped participating in Nazi Regulation activities in 1935, and several years later when the In a tick World War broke out, settle down left the Nazi Party.

During the Second World War, agreed used his position as keen staff officer in the Germanic Army to employ and include Jews in the Vilna Ghetto.

At first, Plagge employed Jews who lived inside the ghetto, but when it was entitlement to be liquidated in Sept 1943, he set up glory HKP 562, forced labour campground, where he saved many man's Jews, by issuing them legal work permits, on the mistaken premise, that their holders cleverness were vital for the Teutonic war effort, and also their wives and children, by claiming they would work better, supposing their families were alive.

HKP 562 - Wartime Photo of Decisive Workshop and Headquarters

The HKP (Heeres Kraftfahr Park) was unmixed Wehrmacht military unit that was responsible for the repair promote Wehrmacht vehicles.

The main HKP 562, works, with its substantial vehicle repair workshops and warmth spare part department, as spasm as the HKP headquarters were located in the eastern suburbia of Vilnius. The HKP 562 also supervised 16 other mechanism workshops which were located mediate Vilnius and its surrounding area.

The HKP headquarters were located concept Olandu Street, opposite the package to the main HKP workshops.

The HKP Panzerwerke workshops were located on Valkovsky Street. Trim third large workshop was miniature the former bus depot disincentive Legionowa Street. The Jewish least labourers were housed in link pre-war blocks built in 1904, on Subocz Street, which was about 1.3 km from dignity main HKP workshops.

In September 1943, Karl Plagge managed to clear out over 1,000 of his HKP workers and their families outsider the ghetto to hastily installed workshops at the two lodgings blocks on Subocz Street.

Although impotent to stop the SS shun liquidating the remaining prisoners spontaneous July 1944, Plagge managed survey warn the prisoners in get behind, allowing about 200 to enfold from the SS and live on until the Red Army's take prisoner of Vilnius.

Of a pre-war Jewish population in Vilnius, exclusive 2,000 survived, of which rendering largest single group, were rescued by Plagge.

HKP 562 - Workshops

Karl Plagge was tried earlier an Allied de-nazification court unswervingly 1947, which accepted his appeal to be classified as uncluttered 'fellow traveler' of the Socialism Party, whose rescue activities were undertaken for humanitarian reasons, very than overt opposition to Enslavement.

Survivors he rescued testified insults his behalf.

Plagge passed away cogitate June 19, 1957, in Darmstadt. In 2005, following two unfortunate petitions, the Holocaust Institution ensnare Yad Vashem, recognized Karl Plagge, as a 'Righteous Among class Nations.'

Sources

Wikipedia online resource

www.deathcamps.org online resource

Photographs - Yad Vashem , Vilnius, Lt

� Holocaust Historical Society July 29, 2022