“Are you wondering why you’ve never heard of this man before? For decades, information about Pilecki was kept hidden by the leaders of the postwar, Soviet-installed regime. They couldn’t recount his anti-Nazi activities without completing the story and telling of his anticommunist work as well. With the release in recent years of previously classified or suppressed documents, including Pilecki’s own reports in their entirety, his superhuman exploits are finally becoming known around the world.”
http://fee.org/freeman/he-volunteered-to-go-to-auschwitz/
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