Karl Plagge was a German soldier in WWII who fell for Adolph Hitler’s rhetoric to rebuild Germany to its former state of prominence and wealth.

He was an engineer who rose through the ranks of the Nazi party and, by 1941, found himself in charge of the slaughter of Lithuanian Jews. But instead of embracing this role, he took dangerous and drastic measures to save the lives of hundreds of Jews by issuing permits that kept them out of the concentration camps and provided decent food for them to eat.

Plagge’s efforts weren’t enough to keep thousands of Jews in Lithuania from being slaughtered, but they were such that when he was later being tried for war crimes after Germany fell to the Allied Forces, Jews who had benefitted from his efforts wrote letters in his defense.

This presumed enemy of the Jews risked his life for those he was “supposed” to hate. If a man like that would do such things for people he didn’t even know, just imagine what our loving God, who created each and every one of us, will do to save us when we let Him!