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23. Jan 2016
Incredible and gripping true story from WWII
The "Auschwitz Volunteer: Beyond Bravery" is the incredible true story of Polish Cavalry officer Witold Pilecki's voluntary assignment to get arrested by the Germans in order to be sent to Auschwitz to gather first hand evidence of the Holocaust and report his findings. Pilecki also organized a resistance cell of prisoners who had been Polish officers in 1939. After surviving for three years inside Auschwitz, Pilecki escaped and continued to serve with the Polish Underground (Armia Krajowa) and also participated in the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. When he was freed from a German POW camp in 1945, he made his way to Italy and rejoined the Polish Army there. He typed his report on Hitler's "Final Solution" at Auschwitz (which he witnessed with his own eyes), and returned to his family in Poland with the mission of investigating post war communist atrocities being committed in Poland. He was arrested and brutally tortured by the Polish communist secret police (UB), and was finally murdered after a show trial for being a "Western spy". Unfortunately, Pilecki's attempt to not only document but stop the Holocaust proved unsuccessful as the Allied leaders refused to act on his information which was secretly transmitted to London, and his name and story are largely unknown. For almost 50 years in communist "People's" Poland his contribution was never mentioned in schools or books. I encourage anyone with an interest in history or human rights to read Capt. Witold Pilecki's detailed report on daily life (and death) in KL Auschwitz.
20. Jan 2011
Polish Underground Army, etc., by Michael Peszke
The book "The Polish Underground Army, the Western Allies, and the Failure of Strategic Unity in WWII" by M.A. Peszke is an excellent and in depth study of the failure of Great Britian and the United States to honor their promises made to the Polish government that free and fair elections would be held after the war, that the integrity of Poland's pre war borders would be maintained after the German surrender, and that war crimes committed by both German and Soviet forces in Poland would be full investigated at the Nurenburg trials. Mr. Peszke explaines in great detail the many outstanding contributions that Polish forces in the west made on all fronts of the European Theatre, the assurances made by both Roosevelt and Churchill that Poland would emerge a free and sovereign nation after the war, and the secret plans of the Soviet Union to create a post war empire out of the nation states of central Europe. Due to western indifference and the propoganda of the Soviet backed communist government of post 1945 "People's" Poland, the heroic achievements of the Polish Army, Navy, and especially Air Force in the West were minimised or ignored in official histories and too often the communist line portraying patriotic Polish statesmen and soldiers loyal to the government in exile in London as aristocrats, criminals and fascists was accepted as fact. Out of fear of antagonizing Stalin, the murder of over 23,000 Polish officers at Katyn near Smolensk by the Soviet secret police(NKVD) and the deportation of the civilian population of Eastern Poland to gulags and slave labor was NEVER investigated--during or after the war. One of the greatest failures of the allied powers, Mr. Peszke explains, was their failure to adequately recognize and equip the Polish Underground Army (AK) fighting on occupied Polish soil, as a legitimate formation of the Polish Army proper. Ironically, after the war Polish partisans of the Home Army were arrested, convicted in show trials of being fascists or criminals, and often executed or sent to gulags by the Soviet secret police. Some Poles actually shared post war jail cells in Russia with members of the SS! Also, the Polish Independent Parachute Brigade, which had been promised to fight only on Polish soil, was sent to Holland as part of Montgomery's failed Operation Market Garden. The Polish commander, who was the only senior officer to oppose the mission was later blamed for it's failure to spare "Monty" any bad press and relieved of command. The fact that the Polish airborne troops didn't mutiny after they were refused permission to jump into to Poland during the Warsaw Uprising is a testiment to their sense of honor and profesionalism. In their haste to appease Stalin, the allied powers left not only Poland to her fate, but so too the entire armed forces and government in exile in London. After reading this book, the intelligent reader can only come to the conclusion that the betrayal of Poland by her allies was not only the most shameful chapter of the Second World War but also set the stage for the Cold War. Mr. Peszke has performed an invaluable service for both the serious historian of WWII and members of the post war Polish diaspora in writing this book which accurately describes arguably the greatest tragedy and betrayal to befall an allied power during the Second World War.