The Good Nazi

Sunday, June 27, at 5 PM

Learn the incredible true story of Major Karl Plagge, an officer in the Nazi party who used his position to save more than 1,000 Jewish people in a Lithuanian concentration camp. THE GOOD NAZI also follows the efforts of University of Hartford Professor Richard Freund as he travels to the camp itself to track down these stories.

Today, the camp known as HKP, which was located in a block  of apartment buildings, is unchanged. However, it has been designated for urban development. Several survivors and their families persuaded the Lithuanian government to allow Professor Freund to record the area for posterity. His mission is to identify the “hidden rooms” in the walls of the buildings and the mass burial in the courtyard. 

Using original drawings made by survivors, eyewitness testimony and geophysics, Freund and his team attempt to locate the exact spot where the murdered are buried and the places where the survivors hid.