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Witold Pilecki survived nearly three years as an inmate in the Auschwitz death camp, managing to smuggle out word of executions before making a daring escape. But the Polish resistance hero was crushed by the post-war communist regime tried on trumped-up charges and executed. He found communist prison harder to endure than Auschwitz.
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