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The Polish resistance 80 years ago.

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https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2025/1/27/hell-on-earth-who-were-the-victims-killed-by-the-nazis-in-auschwitz

Polish resistance
“The hardest part was the psychological terror — the idea that you could be executed at any moment for any rea- son made the fear constant.” — Wla- dyslaw Bartoszewski, member of the Polish resistance, Auschwitz survivor Some 150,000 Polish intellectuals, clergy, educators and resistance mem- bers were sent to Auschwitz in a Ger- man effort to suppress any opposition to Nazism and hinder the country from rebuilding after the war. While harsh, their treatment was generally less brutal than that of Jewish prisoners.

Some imprisoned Poles succeeded in forming underground resistance net- works to provide mutual aid and sabo- tage camp operations, making use of the fact that Auschwitz was situated in their own country. They gathered in- formation about the Nazis’ plans, movements of goods and extermina- tion efforts, and smuggled this data to Polish resistance leadership and Allied forces.

Resistance figures also destroyed or altered records to delay the identifica- tion and deportation of prisoners, and played a key role in documenting the systematic killings at Auschwitz. They sabotaged industrial operations, slow- ing down work and damaging equip- ment, organised escape routes and smuggled food, medicine and other essentials into the camp — all at great personal risk, as those caught helping prisoners were usually executed.

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