➡️Communist security services had Witold Pilecki for 12 months, 10 of which he was interrogated. Auschwitz had had him for 31 months; in the camp he slaved away, suffered beatings, cold and hunger, contracted typhus, and dozens of times narrowly escaped death. ➡️And then called it all a child’s play. His words exactly: "Auschwitz was a child’s play." ➡️He owed that perception of the camp to the communist lawlessness enforcement apparatus, which processed him for 12 months. By the time their security people got him in May 1947, Pilecki, one of the bravest men ever to don a uniform, behind his belt had thirty years of service to his country in three wars – two of them world ones – a concentration camp and an uprising. He’d seen it all, or so he thought. ➡️However, NKVD-trained security officers of communist Poland proved him wrong. They knew he was mounting an intelligence network and a resistance group, and were determined to beat all his contacts out of him. They’d buried in...
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