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    Who was the only person to volunteer to be an inmate in Auschwitz, so as to gather information on it?

    Question #107955. Asked by star_gazer. (Aug 13 09 2:36 PM)


    rb6359

    		Polish Cavalry Captain Witold Pilecki -- Captain Pilecki began his military service during the Polish-Bolshevik War of 1920. He fought during the Nazi invasion of Poland in September, 1939, and thereafter, in the Polish Armed Underground. In 1941, on orders from the ZWZ (pol. Zwiazek Walki Zbrojnej - Association of Armed Struggle) he volunteered to be captured by the Nazis, and to be sent to the notorious Auschwitz Concentration Camp (Konzentrationslager Auschwitz). His mission was to obtain information about the Nazi atrocities committed at the camp, on behalf of the Polish Government in Exile, and the Allies, and to lay groundwork for the creation of the underground resistance movement within the camp.

    http://www.doomedsoldiers.com/volunteer-to-Auschwitz.html

    [Text added -- Zb]

    Aug 13 09, 2:52 PM

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