The Socialist Censorship of Information

Captain Pilecki, one of the Polish army resistance leaders volunteered to allow himself to be captured by the Gestapo in order to infiltrate Auschwitz concentration camp. He created the report that was smuggled out detailing the horrors and atrocities occurring at the camp. This report made it into the allies' hands, but it fell on deaf ears. Captain Pilecki escaped Auschwitz and later fought the Warsaw uprising in 1944. In 1947, he was arrested by the communist state security police and charged with anti-Polish activities. He was sentenced to death in a show trial and executed. There today there are streets, places and schools named after him in Poland.