Karl Plagge

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About Karl Plagge

Karl Plagge was a German officer who rescued Jews during the Holocaust in Lithuania by issuing work permits to non-essential workers. 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. After being dismissed from the position of lecturer for being unwilling to teach racism and his opposition to Nazi racial policies, he stopped participating in party activities in 1935 and left the party when the war broke out. Birthdays.fyi indexes this profile with birthday, age, profession cluster, source links, and nearby people born on July 10.

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German general and engineer (died 1957). This page is tagged with Science, Historical, German.

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