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The story of a German army officer who subverted the system of death to save the lives of some 250 Jews in Vilna. He first joined then left the Nazi Party and found himself in Vilna in charge of a work camp. Time after time he saved Jews from prison and SS death squads, pulling whole families from the ghetto by issuing them work permits as "indispensible" laborers essential to the war effort.