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It was illegal for any German to help Jews, let alone help save Jewish lives - Wermacht, SS or otherwise. Thus, any German officer who helped Jews was heroic. And there weren't that many. Rugemer was among the very few. (Yad Vashem even recognized Rugemer as a "Righteous among Nations" at one time.) The SS started out as murderers fighting for Hitler intent on wiping out Jews - The Wermacht, on the other hand, was the German army originally motivated to fight for Germany. When Hitler became C...

Eduard Rugemer, the German major featured in "Irena's Vow" was NOT a member of the SS as he is being portrayed. Rather, he was a career army major in the German Wermacht. Rugemer personally despised the SS and their treatment of Jews. To associate him with the SS and its murderous thugs is an affront to history and to the memory of a man who by all accounts was "righteous" in his own right.