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History, Reference, Research, and GrogTalk => Military (and other) History => Topic started by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 08:09:25 AM

Title: Witold Pilecki
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 08:09:25 AM
Damn. This guy volunteered to get imprisoned in Auschwitz.

https://twitter.com/MilHistNow/status/910120088421969925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witold_Pilecki

Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: bbmike on September 19, 2017, 09:16:29 AM
 :o And he was there for three years! And he escaped!  :o
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 09:17:09 AM
I know. Dude was a true badass.
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: Gusington on September 19, 2017, 09:20:45 AM
Hardcore.
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: OJsDad on September 19, 2017, 09:28:12 AM
He makes badasses look weak. 
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: bbmike on September 19, 2017, 10:23:42 AM
 :o And he wrote a book about (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KAKES7G/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1)! And I'm going to read it!  :o
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 10:28:43 AM
^That's a must read
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: Greybriar on September 19, 2017, 10:53:56 AM
And after all Witold Pilecki had done, he was arrested, tortured, tried, convicted, and executed by the Polish communists and died in 1948. Just one of the reasons why the Polish hate the communists.
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 10:57:07 AM
Just placed a hold on his book at my local library.
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: bayonetbrant on September 19, 2017, 11:04:23 AM
Quote from: mirth on September 19, 2017, 10:57:07 AM
Just placed a hold on his book at my local library.

they have libraries in Maine?  Or is "local" down in Boston?
Title: Re: Witold Pilecki
Post by: mirth on September 19, 2017, 11:08:49 AM
Quote from: bayonetbrant on September 19, 2017, 11:04:23 AM
Quote from: mirth on September 19, 2017, 10:57:07 AM
Just placed a hold on his book at my local library.

they have libraries in Maine?  Or is "local" down in Boston?

We have "underground" libraries. If the knuckle draggers found out, us literate folks would be in big trouble.