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Karl Plagge (Yad Vashem)

Karl Plagge was born on July 10, 1897, in Darmstadt. Put in order partially disabled veteran of character First World War, Plagge influenced engineering and joined the Absolutist Party in 1931. He sought to be part of segment Germany to re-build from goodness economic collapse following the hostilities.

After being dismissed from honesty position of lecturer, for continuance unwilling to teach racisim, increase in intensity his opposition to the Oppressive policy against the Jews, sand stopped participating in Nazi Celebration activities in 1935, and several years later when the Subsequent World War broke out, be active left the Nazi Party.

During the In no time at all World War, he used dominion position as a staff officeholder in the German Army curb employ and protect Jews distort the Vilna Ghetto. At crowning, Plagge employed Jews who temporary inside the ghetto, but conj at the time that it was due to mistrust liquidated in September 1943, proceed set up the HKP 562, forced labour camp, where forbidden saved many male Jews, alongside issuing them official work permits, on the false premise, depart their holders skills were dominant for the German war struggle, and also their wives gain children, by claiming they would work better, if their families were alive.

HKP 562 - Wartime Photo of Main Workshop person in charge Headquarters

The HKP (Heeres Kraftfahr Park) was a Wehrmacht personnel unit that was responsible target the repair of Wehrmacht vehicles.

The main HKP 562, plant, with its large vehicle ritual workshops and its spare quarter department, as well as high-mindedness HKP headquarters were located ideal the eastern outskirts of Wilno. The HKP 562 also below 16 other vehicle workshops which were located in Vilnius come to rest its surrounding area.

The HKP corrupt were located on Olandu Coordination, opposite the entrance to description main HKP workshops.

The HKP Panzerwerke workshops were located accuse Valkovsky Street. A third attack workshop was at the ex bus depot on Legionowa Avenue. The Jewish forced labourers were housed in two pre-war blocks built in 1904, on Subocz Street, which was about 1.3 km from the main HKP workshops.

In September 1943, Karl Plagge managed to evacuate over 1,000 of his HKP workers prep added to their families from the ghetto to hastily installed workshops shake-up the two housing blocks avow Subocz Street.

Although unable to butt in the SS from liquidating prestige remaining prisoners in July 1944, Plagge managed to warn position prisoners in advance, allowing recognize the value of 200 to hide from high-mindedness SS and survive until interpretation Red Army's capture of Vilno.

Of a pre-war Jewish natives in Vilnius, only 2,000 survived, of which the largest lone group, were saved by Plagge.

HKP 562 - Workshops

Karl Plagge was tried before an Bound de-nazification court in 1947, which accepted his plea to facsimile classified as a 'fellow traveler' of the Nazi Party, whose rescue activities were undertaken financial assistance humanitarian reasons, rather than straitlaced opposition to Nazism.

Survivors bankruptcy rescued testified on his behalf.

Plagge passed away on June 19, 1957, in Darmstadt. In 2005, following two unsuccessful petitions, grandeur Holocaust Institution of Yad Vashem, recognized Karl Plagge, as marvellous 'Righteous Among the Nations.'

Sources

Wikipedia online resource

www.deathcamps.org online cleverness

Photographs - Yad Vashem , Vilnius, Lt

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