Germans Beyond Germany

This chapter is one of the chapters that is most memorable for me. Stereotypically, Germans were considered as the people who despised the Jews. However, this chapter showed me that this is a stereotype.
"Major Helmrich hid some of his workers in his home, and secured the release of others who had already been rounded up for deportation by insisting that they were needed 'for the proper functioning of the farm." Although Major Helmrich had high position, he was a man who was different from other Germans. He even wrote false papers to send his people to better-conditioned places.
Moreover, Major Karl Plagge asked his superiors if he could set up a special labour camp for his Jewish workers next to his Motor Vehicle Repair Park, in order to protect them from the regular raids on the ghetto. There's another major who sacrificed himself to save number of people. One man quotes, "Mr. Plagge could have got into serious trouble by doing so." This remark shows that Major Plagge did lots of work that is illegal to protect Jewish people. Some of the works he did are: "first when the ghetto was being liquidated in September 1943, and again in the das before liberation when he warned them again of the impending arrival of the SS.”
There are also other men such as Arthur Schade, Otto Busse, Hans-Georg Calmeyer, Dr Gerhard, and Alfred Rossner. They all worked for the liberation of Jews in the West and they were very provocative.
Those are the men who were in the West Germany. Gilbert presents Germans in the East who helped the Jews to get better living standards. For instance, Oskar Schinder is one of the men who saved lots of Jews. Since he was so famous, Steven Spielberg directed movie of him. He "had saved more than fifteen hundred Jews by employing them in his factories, and treating them humanely." Not only Schindler, but also Herman Friedrich Graebe, Julius Madritsh and Titsch were the poeple who took part of that righteous.
Therefore, these Germans, both from West and East, are very memorable for me because they changed my perspective of Germans a lot.