{"id":30121,"date":"2012-09-07T15:49:49","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/the-man-who-snuck-into-auschwitz.html"},"modified":"2012-09-07T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:49:49","slug":"the-man-who-snuck-into-auschwitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/the-man-who-snuck-into-auschwitz.html","title":{"rendered":"The man who snuck into Auschwitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Army Captain\u00a0Witold Pilecki let himself be captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to organize the prisoners and report back on what was going on. Despite the atrocities he reported in 1941-43 to the Allies, no action was taken against the camp. \u00a0He escaped in &#39;43, participated (and survived) the Warsaw Uprising \u00a0in 1944, but, as a loyalist to and spy for the Polish government in exile, was arrested\u00a0by the Communist secret police\u00a0in 1947 and executed.<\/p>\n<p>(More info at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Witold_Pilecki\" >http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Witold_Pilecki<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.futilitycloset.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2012%2F09%2F2012-09-04-witolds-report2.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2012\/09\/04\/witolds-report\/'>Witold\u2019s Report | Futility Closet<\/a><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/6DU5RVaF6KH' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polish Army Captain\u00a0Witold Pilecki let himself be captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to organize the prisoners and report back on what was going on. Despite the atrocities he reported in 1941-43 to the Allies, no action was taken against the camp. \u00a0He escaped in &#39;43, participated (and survived) the Warsaw Uprising \u00a0in 1944, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/07\/the-man-who-snuck-into-auschwitz.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The man who snuck into Auschwitz&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11316,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/09\/25\/schutzstaffel_just_wanna.html","url_meta":{"origin":30121,"position":0},"title":"Schutzstaffel just wanna have fun!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 25-Sep-07 7:58am","format":false,"excerpt":"The US Holocaust Museum is having a display of pictures from the personal photo album of an Auschwitz officer in the SS.\u00a0 Here's a pleasant vacation picture at the...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Potpourri&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Potpourri","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/potpourri"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/ss-vacations.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":132550,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/12\/polish-posters-for-hollywood-movies.html","url_meta":{"origin":30121,"position":1},"title":"Polish Posters for Hollywood Movies","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 12-Jan-17 7:07pm","format":false,"excerpt":"These are pretty darned cool (and, not occasionally, whimsical) -- posters made for Polish releases of imported American movies (from an era before such things were carefully art managed from the studio). 14 Incredible Polish Film Posters For Hollywood Movies From Pulp Fiction to Braveheart, check out these striking Polish\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9088,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/02\/21\/sauce_for_the_g.html","url_meta":{"origin":30121,"position":2},"title":"Sauce for the goose","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 21-Feb-06 8:21am","format":false,"excerpt":"How can the West stand (in the \"Mohammed Cartoons\" controversy) for freedom of expression, no madder how rude or offensive or inflammatory, when folks are still being imprisoned for rude,...","rel":"","context":"In &quot;ZT &amp; 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