The Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery by Captain Witold Pilecki,Michael Schudrich,Norman Davies,Jarek

By Captain Witold Pilecki,Michael Schudrich,Norman Davies,Jarek Garlinski

In 1940, the Polish Underground desired to recognize what was once occurring contained in the lately opened Auschwitz focus camp. Polish military officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by way of the Germans and stated from contained in the camp. His intelligence stories, smuggled out in 1941, have been one of the first eyewitness debts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its functionality as a camp for Polish political prisoners, and the "final resolution" for Jews. Pilecki got brutal remedy till he escaped in April 1943; quickly after, he wrote a short file. This ebook is the 1st English translation of a 1945 extended model. within the foreword, Poland's leader rabbi states, "If heeded, Pilecki's early warnings may have replaced the process history." Pilecki's tale used to be suppressed for part a century after his 1948 arrest via the Polish Communist regime as a "Western spy." He was once finished and expunged from Polish heritage. Pilecki writes in staccato sort but in addition interjects his observations on humankind's loss of development: "We have strayed, my pals, we've got strayed dreadfully... we're a complete point of hell worse than animals!" those extraordinary revelations are amplified by way of forty b&w pictures, illus., and maps.

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