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The Volunteer Prisoner of Auschwitz

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This chapter explores the extraordinary mission of Vytole Pilecki, a Polish second lieutenant who intentionally gets captured by the Nazis to gather intelligence from within Auschwitz. His story epitomizes courage and resistance against the horrors of oppression during World War II.

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