He was one of the biggest heroes of World War 2. He was the man who volunteered to get captured and be sent to Auschwitz where he spent over 2 years in the concentration camp, gathering information and organizing resistance. He was the man, who informed the Allies of Nazi atrocities and German plans to exterminate the Jews. He was a captain of the Polish Army and his name was Witold Pilecki.
Allied governments were given the information as early as 1941-1942, but they, especially Winston Churchill, did nothing. When Pilecki’s group had discovered existence of the Gas Chambers, they started to work on plans to liberate Auschwitz, but Polish resistance had no strength to do so. As, the Allies had no intention of doing it, Pilecki escaped from Auschwitz. He fought in the Warsaw Uprising, where he was captured by Nazis. After the war ended, he returned to Poland, in 1945, to gather intelligence on Soviet regime. He was arrested by the Communists and they tortured him for six months, subjected him to a ridiculous trial and sentenced him to 3 death sentences. He was murdered on May 25th, 1948.
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