The Volunteer: One Man, an Underground Army, and the Secret Mission to Destroy Auschwitz By Jack Fairweather

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COSTA BOOK AWARD WINNER: BOOK OF THE YEAR • #1 SUNDAY TIMES (UK) BESTSELLER“Superbly written and breathtakingly researched, The Volunteer smuggles us into Auschwitz and shows us—as if watching a movie—the story of a Polish agent who infiltrated the infamous camp, organized a rebellion, and then snuck back out. ... Fairweather has dug up a story of incalculable value and delivered it to us in the most compelling prose I have read in a long time.” —Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm and TribeThe incredible true story of a Polish resistance fighter’s infiltration of Auschwitz to sabotage the camp from within, and his death-defying attempt to warn the Allies about the Nazis’ plans for a “Final Solution” before it was too late.To uncover the fate of the thousands being interred at a mysterious Nazi camp on the border of the Reich, a thirty-nine-year-old Polish resistance fighter named Witold Pilecki volunteered for an audacious mission: assume a fake identity, intentionally get captured and sent to the new camp, and then report back to the underground on what had happened to his compatriots there. But gathering information was not his only task: he was to execute an attack from inside—where the Germans would least expect it. The name of the camp was Auschwitz.Over the next two and half years, Pilecki forged an underground army within Auschwitz that sabotaged facilities, assassinated Nazi informants and officers, and gathered evidence of terrifying abuse and mass murder. But as he pieced together the horrifying truth that the camp was to become the epicenter of Nazi plans to exterminate Europe’s Jews, Pilecki realized he would have to risk his men, his life, and his family to warn the West before all was lost. To do so, meant attempting the impossible—an escape from Auschwitz itself.Completely erased from the historical record by Poland’s post-war Communist government, Pilecki remains almost unknown to the world. Now, with exclusive access to previously hidden diaries, family and camp survivor accounts, and recently declassified files, Jack Fairweather offers an unflinching portrayal of survival, revenge and betrayal in mankind’s darkest hour. And in uncovering the tragic outcome of Pilecki’s mission, he reveals that its ultimate defeat originated not in Auschwitz or Berlin, but in London and Washington.

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This book details the legendary work of Witold Pilecki. Because other reviewers have covered this, I will not repeat it. Instead, I focus on some extraneous information in this book that has little or nothing to do with Pilecki, and instead seems to reinforce popular stereotypes about Poles and their conduct toward Jews.In terms of specifics, this book mentions: Poland's presumed bad treatment of her preWWII minorities (pp. 8-9); the boycotts of Jews (in the absence of context) (p. 9); prewar Polish violence against Jews (p. 9); Polish anti-Semitism (compared with what?) (p. 22); Physical Polish attacks on Jews during the German Occupation (what scale?) (pp. 40-41); Polish doctors, at Auschwitz, treating Jewish patients "quickly" (p. 136); Nazis did not do systematic murder on Poles (absolutely false), only on Jews (p. 177); Vague Polish killings of Jews in the east, and suppressing facts about it (p. 184); Gratuitous remarks about "Poland's prewar inequality" (p. 227); Insinuation that "Polish nationalists" wanted to keep Auschwitz as a symbol of Polish suffering (p. 289); Wholesale Nazi German extermination of Poles "ruled out" (false) (p. 293); Polish staff at Auschwitz giving verbal jabs, and kicks, to the Jews to show them that they are on the ones on the bottom of the Nazi German hierarchy (p. 327); AK (Armia Krajowa) Commander Bor Komorowski "generally avoided confronting the anti-Semitic elements of the resistance" (p. 357); Poles killing Jews during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising (p. 384, 498-499); Polish Underground not investigating such alleged killing of Jews (p. 384); Postwar Auschwitz treated by Poles only "on Christian terms" (p. 400); Postwar Polish looters at Jewish murder sites (p. 401); Poles blame Jews for Communism (p. 402), no context provided; Witold Pilecki never seeing the suffering of Jews as a symbol of humanity (p. 413)[was he supposed to?]; Jews being an "unwanted element" among Poles (p. 443), again without context; Witold Pilecki's alleged semi-derogatory characterizations of Jews (p. 469); Polish Underground not mentioning the Jewishness of the Sonderkommando and their revolt (p. 483); Polish anti-Semitism yet again (p. 496).Part of the problem is that author Jack Fairweather is a journalist, and is unfamiliar with scholarly sources. In the Bibliography, there are authors of dubious objectivity, such as Anna Bikont (p. 507), MIchal Cichy (p. 508), David Engel (p. 510), Barbara Engelking (p. 510), Jan T. Gross (p. 512), and Shmuel Krakowski (p. 513).A much better book, in my opinion, is THE AUSCHWITZ VOLUNTEER, by Witold Pilecki.

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