A German army officer who saved hundreds of Jews from the Nazi Holocaust in Lithuania has been honoured at a ceremony in Israel. The story of Maj Karl Plagge was unearthed by a US doctor, Michael Good, who began searching in 1999 for the Nazi who had saved his mother. Maj Plagge sheltered about 1,200 Jews at a vehicle workshop while the SS annihilated the Vilnius ghetto. Plagge, who died in 1957, was honoured by the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial. It is unusual for Yad Vashem to bestow the "Righteous Among the Nations" title on a German who was part...