 Complete the following phrase:  Plagge was born to a Prussian family in Darmstadt, Germany, on 10 July 1897; many of his ancestors had been military doctors. Plagges father died in 1904, leaving Plagge, his mother, and his older sister. After graduating from Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium, a secondary school that focused on the classics, Plagge was drafted into the Imperial German Army. He fought as a lieutet in World War I on the Western Front, participating in the battles of the 