He Volunteered for Auschwitz On Purpose — Witold Pilecki #Shorts

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[00:00:00]He volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz, on purpose.

[00:00:03]1940 Captain Witold Pilecki, Polish army officer, came up with a plan so insane his commanders almost rejected it. He would deliberately get arrested by the Nazis, get sent to Auschwitz, build a resistance network inside, and smuggle out intelligence.

[00:00:21]Nobody had ever gone into a death camp willingly. For 945 days, Pilecki lived inside Auschwitz. He watched thousands die. He was beaten, starved, subjected to medical experiments, but he never broke. He organized a secret resistance network, stealing food, smuggling medicine, and building a hidden radio transmitter to send reports to the outside world.

[00:00:45]Pilecki's reports were the first detailed intelligence about the Holocaust to reach the allies.

[00:00:51]He described the gas chambers, the mass executions, the unimaginable scale of the killing. The allies received his reports, and they did nothing. They didn't believe it could be that bad.

[00:01:05]In April 1943, Pilecki escaped. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising. After the war, the Soviets arrested him as a spy. In 1948, the man who survived Auschwitz was executed by the communist regime he had fought to free.

[00:01:23]The bravest man you've never heard of.

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