In this letter he compares himself with the character of Dr. Rieux in Albert Camus' novel The Plague and describes his hopeless struggle against a plague of death that slowly envelops the inhabitants of his city.
Most of the few remaining Jewish residents of Vilnius, who had been afforded some measure of protection in the HKP 562 forced labor camp by the actions of a Wehrmacht officer, Karl Plagge, were murdered by the SS as Soviet forces approached the city.
Karl Marx | Karl Pilkington | Karl Lagerfeld | Karl G. Heider | Karl Rove | Karl Pearson | Karl May | Karl Liebknecht | Karl Friedrich Schinkel | Karl Dönitz | Karl Jenkins | Karl Stefanovic | Karl Bodmer | Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Karl Malone | Karl Wolf | Karl Valentin | Karl Popper | Karl Malden | Karl Kesel | Karl Barth | Karl Richard Lepsius | Karl Philipp von Wrede | Karl Kautsky | Karl Johans gate | Karl-Heinz Kämmerling | Karl | Karl Weierstrass | Karl Story | Karl Scheel |