Witold Pilecki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki - the most badass guy imaginable... How come I didn't hear about him?
In 1940, Pilecki presented a plan to his superiors to enter Germany's Auschwitz concentration camp at Oświęcim to gather intelligence on the camp from the inside and organize inmate resistance.
Pilecki was ordered by General Anders and his intelligence chief, Lt. Colonel Stanislaw Kijak, to return to Poland and report on the prevailing military and political situation under Soviet-occupation.
Pilecki was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Public Security on 8 May 1947, and he was repeatedly tortured before going to trial. A show trial took place on 3 March 1948, and testimony against Pilecki was presented by future Polish prime minister Józef Cyrankiewicz, himself an Auschwitz survivor.
Pilecki after the announcement of the death sentence
I've been trying to live my life so that in the hour of my death I would rather feel joy, than fear.
(cannot find the reference now, I think I saw somewhere he was accused of being nazi collaborator)
Intense times... Now we have freedom, haven't we?
Poland puts Auschwitz-Birkenau staff database online. Names and details of nearly 10,000 staff who ran Nazi death camp published, with historian saying 200 guards could be alive
http://truthaboutcamps.eu/th/form/60,Zaloga-SS-KL-Auschwitz.html?szukaj=25224184973566
