Can you, please, do the episode on the man who not only escaped from Auschwitz but also got himsef caught on purpose .... to gather evidence about the camps and hoping to start an uprising: Witold Pilecki. He escaped, survived the war and was tortured and killed by communists after the war.
For the whole duration of the war, there were only four, who not only escaped, but were not caught and survived the war. For Walter Rosenberg/Rudolf Vrba, the great achievement was not only that he escaped and was not caught, but he survived almost two years where prisoners were gassed on the arrival, or died in a few weeks due to starvation, diseases and physical punishment for minor transgressions.
I recall reading a book from a Polish survivor who spent nearly five years there before being sent elsewhere before the end of the war. He mentioned a couple of people who escaped and were caught, and near the very end he claimed Soviet prisoners often escaped, so often that reprisals ceased when it happened. I think that the majority of those folk worked at one of the many out camps, and only spent the night in one of the main camps, which gave them the opportunities to escape. It has the worst reputation of all the sites, probably due to overall numbers murdered there, but chances of survival were better there than at least two of the other pure extermination sites.
Auschwitz was predominantly a labour camp/concentration camp. Lots of Poles were imprisoned there, slave labour basically. There were a few Poles who managed to escape the camp, some survived the camp and were liberated in 1945
There were rumours, sometimes there were people warning those on trains wgen they would stop at train stations, but noone believed it. It was too shocking to believe.
This podcast could be very good but the stuttering and giggling is excessive. Stuttering is a condition ok but the giggling? Sounds like two teenage girls.
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Can you, please, do the episode on the man who not only escaped from Auschwitz but also got himsef caught on purpose .... to gather evidence about the camps and hoping to start an uprising: Witold Pilecki. He escaped, survived the war and was tortured and killed by communists after the war.
Great story!
For the whole duration of the war, there were only four, who not only escaped, but were not caught and survived the war.
For Walter Rosenberg/Rudolf Vrba, the great achievement was not only that he escaped and was not caught, but he survived almost two years where prisoners were gassed on the arrival, or died in a few weeks due to starvation, diseases and physical punishment for minor transgressions.
I recall reading a book from a Polish survivor who spent nearly five years there before being sent elsewhere before the end of the war.
He mentioned a couple of people who escaped and were caught, and near the very end he claimed Soviet prisoners often escaped, so often that reprisals ceased when it happened. I think that the majority of those folk worked at one of the many out camps, and only spent the night in one of the main camps, which gave them the opportunities to escape.
It has the worst reputation of all the sites, probably due to overall numbers murdered there, but chances of survival were better there than at least two of the other pure extermination sites.
It's unbelievable because it can't possibly be true.
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Auschwitz was predominantly a labour camp/concentration camp.
Lots of Poles were imprisoned there, slave labour basically.
There were a few Poles who managed to escape the camp, some survived the camp and were liberated in 1945
There were rumours, sometimes there were people warning those on trains wgen they would stop at train stations, but noone believed it. It was too shocking to believe.
I did research on location, before the site was open to the public. My degrees are in archeology and soil and structure analysis.
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i'm not watching this now i just wanted to comment really early, i'll watch tommarrow i'm sure its awesome
It is, and a 2 parter
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This podcast could be very good but the stuttering and giggling is excessive. Stuttering is a condition ok but the giggling? Sounds like two teenage girls.
I quite enjoy their humor and I love that they have fun with it
@@petorian343 exactly the same
😅 so don't listen, ya knob.