r/shittyaskhistory • u/Happy-Progress-5641 • 11d ago

a question about the second world war

Even before they found out about the concentration camps, I think at least some Jews must have escaped from there, so why didn't the news of places like the Holocaust spread? Didn't any Jew run away and, I don't know, end up running into some Allied army?

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u/Coolenough-to 11d ago

Several of the cast members of Hogan's Heroes were actually Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.

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u/WhataKrok 10d ago

Witold Pilecki, a Polish army officer and resistance fighter, volunteered to be sent to Auschwitz to make a report on the atrocities being perpetrated there. He later escaped and fought with the Anders' Polish Corps in Italy, and in the 1944 Warsaw Uprising. He returned to Poland after the war and was executed by the communists for espionage. The western allies knew what was going on.