The Almost Genius on Instagram: "Witold Pilecki | The Volunteer of Auschwitz Witold Pilecki was a Polish army officer who made a decision so irrational it sounds fictional. In 1940, when Auschwitz was just a rumor, he deliberately let himself be arrested by the Nazis. His goal was simple and insane: infiltrate the camp, gather intelligence, and build a resistance from the inside. Inside Auschwitz, Pilecki organized secret networks, smuggled reports to the outside world, and sent the first eyewit