Captain Gustav Wagner was a deputy commandant of the Sobibor extermination camp — and one of its most notorious killers. But in October 1943, during the Sobibor uprising, Wagner made a decision that saved 210 Jewish prisoners. When commandant Stangl ordered the immediate execution of all remaining prisoners to eliminate evidence, Wagner falsified a telegram — claiming that Reichsführer Himmler had ordered the prisoners transferred to another camp. He used this fake order to halt the executions and delay the camp's destruction long enough for 300 prisoners to escape. Of the 300 who escaped, 210 survived to reach freedom. Wagner was never charged with anything for this act. He was later tried and convicted for his role in the camp's operations. He died in prison in 1980. The Jews he saved did not learn of his role until 1966, when one of the survivors found the original falsified telegram in an archive.