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In 1940, the Polish Underground wanted to know what was taking place inside the lately opened Auschwitz focus camp. Polish army officer Witold Pilecki volunteered to be arrested by the Germans and survey in the camp. His brains records, smuggled out in 1941, were one of the primary eyewitness accounts of Auschwitz atrocities: the extermination of Soviet POWs, its function as a camp for Polish politics prisoners, and the "last solution" for Jews. Pilecki received brutal treatment until he escaped in Apr 1943; immediately after, he wrote a short report. This e book is the first British translation of a 1945 widened version. Within the foreword, Poland's key rabbi says, "If heeded, Pilecki's early on warnings may have changed the course of background." Pilecki's account was suppressed for half a century after his 1948 arrest by the Polish Communist regime as a "Traditional western spy". He was executed and expunged from Polish background. Pilecki writes in staccato style but also interjects his observations on humankind's lack of progress: "We've strayed, my friends, we have strayed dreadfully.... Were a whole degree of hell worse than animals!"
