The Polish Officer Who Volunteered for Auschwitz — and Spied Inside for 945 Days

In September 1940, a Polish officer named Witold Pilecki did the unthinkable: he let German soldiers arrest him on a Warsaw street — on purpose — so they would deport him to Auschwitz. His mission was to get inside the camp, build a secret resistance network, and smuggle the truth out to a world that had no idea what was happening behind the wire. He survived nearly 945 days and escaped through a bakery door in the rain. What his own country did to him afterward is the part history tried to erase.