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Escape from Auschwitz

Discussion in 'Concentration, Death Camps and Crimes Against Huma' started by GRW, Nov 14, 2016.

  1. GRW

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    About as daring as it gets-
    "In 1942, four Polish prisoners at Auschwitz had had enough. They wanted to escape, but if they did (regardless of whether or not they succeeded), ten fellow inmates would be executed for each of them. Forty lives for four men was too much to bear.
    So they decided to leave. There was no shootout, no digging, no sneaking, nor secrecy involved. They simply drove out of the gates which the German guards obligingly opened for them. After WWII had ended, the Polish government rewarded the man responsible for this unique exit by throwing him in jail.
    That man was Kazimierz “Kazik’ Piechowski, who was born in Rajkowy, Poland on 3 October 1919. One of his earliest memories was at the age of 10 when he and a German friend went to the town of Malbork (now in Poland but then in Germany)"
    https://www.warhistoryonline.com/world-war-ii/when-four-prisoners-escaped-auschwitz-by-stealing-a-car.html
     

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