Language:
English
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
German Studies Review
Angaben zur Quelle:
31,3 (2008) 489-512
Keywords:
Plagge, Karl,
;
Schmid, Anton,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
;
Jews
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Rescue
Abstract:
Relates the events of the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in June 1941, and the actions of Einsatzgruppe A which followed in the wake of the German army. Thousands of Jews were murdered in June-July 1941 by the Nazis and by Lithuanian collaborators. Relates the organization of Jewish resistance in the Vilna ghetto, and then focuses on the cases of two members of the Wehrmacht who rescued Jews - Major Karl Plagge and Sergeant Anton Schmid.
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