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Spies & Intelligence

Witold Pilecki: The Man Who Voluntarily Walked Into Auschwitz to Spy for the Polish Underground

Rotmistrz Witold Pilecki, Polish Secret Army / Home Army

In September 1940, Polish cavalry officer Witold Pilecki deliberately got himself arrested by the Nazis to be transported to Auschwitz, where he spent nearly th...

Unsung Heroes

Raoul Wallenberg: The Swedish Diplomat Who Invented New Ways to Save Lives, Then Vanished Into the Soviet Union

Raoul Wallenberg, First Secretary, Swedish Legation Budapest

Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg arrived in Budapest in July 1944 with a brief to protect Hungarian Jews. He personally invented the Schutzpass protective pass...