An Army of Normal Folks - Witold Pilecki: The Auschwitz Volunteer

Witold Pilecki: The Auschwitz Volunteer

01/27/25 • 13 min

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For An Army of Normal Dead Folks, Larry Reed tells the story of the Polish hero who spied on the Nazis and the Soviets. And paid the ultimate price for it.

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An Army of Normal Folks - Witold Pilecki: The Auschwitz Volunteer

Transcript

Speaker 100:00:02.160

So he volunteered to get arrested by the Germans, hoping that they wouldn't simply shoot him, and that they might then send him to this place called Auschwitz so he could find out from the inside what was going on and hopefully smuggle out documents or somehow get the word out. He got his wish.

Speaker 200:00:24.120

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