Good - persuaded his parents to accompany him on a visit to Vilna, where he met the people who saved his parents' lives during the wartime German occupation. This is an exceptional story of one man’s bravery and compassion in a world where six million Jews were murdered.

Very interesting to me because my mother and her siblings were helped by a German officer in Poland after the arrest of their parents by the gestapo. Mordecai Paldiel, the director of the committee, thanked Pearl Good for making the trip to Vilnius with her family and sparking the chain of events that uncovered Plagge's actions during the war.Plagge once took an ailing Jewish prisoner to a hospital reserved for non-Jews, where she stayed until the end of the war. When his workers were captured during sweeps, Plagge attempted to free them from Lukiškės Prison before they could be executed at Ponary.

Michael Good, a Connecticut physician, whose mother Pearl and her family were mong Major Plagge's (more than 250) lucky saved souls, in tracing an unlikely Nazi's life and assuring the rightful recognition of a mensch who was too humble to acknowledge his own uniqueness.Plagge was the "quasi-sovereign" of his unit, retaining his independence so long as the repair work got done, and worked to insulate his workers from the genocide perpetrated by the SS. Plagge also made efforts to help Poles and Soviet prisoners of war forced to work for the Wehrmacht. In conclusion, this reader feels, that many of us have probably asked ourselves, whether - faced with a situation like Plagge's - we would have acted honorably or otherwise. I found the most interesting parts of the book were the denazification trial (Appendix A) and whenever the author was quoting a direct source (memoir, letter, etc.